Irvine Spring Hill Riesling 2025
$27, 12.1% alcohol, screwcap, Eden Valley.
This is an ace. It’s dry, it’s fruity, it’s lengthy and it’s lovely. One sip and you know that you’re onto a goodun’. It tastes of lime, slate, lemon and (whispers of ) aromatic herbs, with a touch of lime rind in the mix too. From every angle, it’s a treat. 94 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.
