Henschke Julius Riesling 2025
$56, 11.7% alcohol, screwcap, Eden Valley.
Julius is a beautiful name, just by-the-by.
The intensity of fruit here, and the length of the finish, are elite class. This is a dry riesling grown and made to the highest standards. It tastes of tonic water and lime, slate and lime blossom, talc and chalk, and at every step it impresses as both precise and powerful. This is a cellar-worthy riesling if ever there was one. 95 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.
