Vignerons Schmölzer & Brown Thorley Riesling 2024
AU$66, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Beechworth.
Smashing riesling. Intense, complex, textural, long; the works. Sweet lime, apple, bites of lemonade and grapefruit, a chalky aspect, a run of rust, mineral, steel and citrus rind. It’s mouth-watering in the best of ways. It takes the world in its stride. It’s a killer wine.
96 points – 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.
