Franca’s Vineyard Riesling 2026
AU$22, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, South Eastern Australia.
It has a bit more body and flesh than your average riesling, offering lime, stonefruit, cooked apple and chalk-like flavours as it passes through your mouth. It doesn’t have a lot of length but it’s generally satisfying, clean, crisp and well-flavoured.
89 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.
