De Bortoli Vinoque Riesling 2025
$30, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Yarra Valley.
It starts off delicate and ends up with a good punch of flavour. This is a good riesling to drink. It shows notes of green and red apple, rose petals, and citrus juice and flowers – though you could just say that it has an all-round grapey goodness. Yes to this, It offers fresh, gently grippy, juicy fruit flavour – served with a smidgen of extra interest. 90 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
