Monty’s Leap Riesling 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Monty’s Leap Riesling 2025.

Monty’s Leap Riesling 2025
$32, 12.8% alcohol, screwcap, Great Southern.

Perfumed on the nose, fruitful on the palate, dry, structured and well sustained. This is an attractive riesling – good for drinking now but well-suited to spending a few years in the cellar. The main flavours are lemon, brine, tonic water and wet slate but floral aromas and hints of gooseberry on the palate add both breadth and interest. Everything here is nicely done, and it’s not hard to see it developing well too. 91 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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