Mr Riggs Watervale Riesling 2026
AU$25, 11% alcohol, screwcap, Clare Valley.
This is dry, well-fruited, clearly identifiable as Watervale/Clare and ready to rip right now. It tastes of lemon and lime with modest inputs of aromatic herbs, and while you wouldn’t call it complex you would call it fresh, crisp and more-ish.
89 points – Campbell Mattinson.
Campbell Mattinson
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.
