Shy Susan Riesling 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Shy Susan Riesling 2024.

Shy Susan Riesling 2024
$40, 13% alcohol, screwcap, King Valley.

This riesling was barrel fermented with a smidgen of residual sugar retained. The end result is excellent. It tastes of lemonade, lime blossom, slate, mandarin and tonic with a keen floral element pushing through as the wine breathes. Texture is key here. So too softness. It has good intensity of flavour but the mouthfeel is the thing. And the length. And the elegance. In short this riesling is lovely all-around. 93 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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