Black & Ginger Rapunzel Riesling 2025
$35, 11.2% alcohol, screwcap, Grampians.
You’d be hard pressed to find another riesling with as much flavour as this one. This wine really does make you sit up straighter. It tastes of lime juice, lime leaves and apples and while it’s a dry style, it has a zing of fruit sweetness – the latter in the most positive of ways. This is a wine that you really could – responsibly – guzzle. 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.
