Henschke Peggy’s Hill Riesling 2025
$28, 11.7% alcohol, screwcap, Eden Valley.
This is a bright, flavoursome riesling with lime juice and lime rind characters matched to slate, talc and spice. Everything is in alignment and everything’s working well. This is a dry, racy style but the drinkability rating is up there. 93 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.
