Riesling

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Riesling

When there's talk of the best WA rieslings, this small patch of dirt in the Ferguson Valley is sometimes overlooked, and it certainly shouldn't be. These rieslings, with their classic purity and crunchy, minerally acidity that bounces along over wet pebbles, defined with a precise tension, are consistently outstanding. This one is a quite beautiful and pretty expression, with lovely...

Mount Barker

Riesling

This is a really interesting, quite thrilling example of riesling. The feature here is it's had two months on lees, which has allowed it to pick up both texture and complex flavours, evident also on the nose and the high aromatics. Has a mineral, spicy, lemony character on the nose. And then a palate that is so intense, with a...

Frankland River

Riesling

From the very start, this wine has been something special and highly individual. It comes from a specific patch on the Ferngrove estate and produces a wine of incredible linear character. And rather than the high-end florals it has a spicier lemon zest character that dominates on the nose. The palate picks up on that spicy lemony combo and carries...

Porongurup

Riesling

A wonderfully precise and distinctive riesling with great energy and drive. The aroma is spicy and minerally, with a wet slatey character and an intriguing granite-rock quality. The palate has a wonderfully precise, tense acidity with tremendous length and persistence. It finishes really zingy and lively. This is the first vintage Fervor has had access to fruit from the Gibraltar...

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Riesling

This is riesling, but riesling with a difference. It was all wild fermented in oak, and it's created an altogether different expression of this variety. You're not getting those lively, edgy citrus and floral notes, but instead you're getting slightly more savoury, spicy influences. And the palate delivers with more textural complexity. It shows the versatility of riesling and how...

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Riesling

Here's a riesling distinctly influenced by the classic wines of Germany. It opens with the normal citrusy, lemon-scented characters on the nose. But then the palate is quite delicate, with a little residual sugar and lower alcohol contributing to its lively, keen lines. It has a nice slatey, minerally edge running through it. And the flavour is quite beautiful. It's...

Porongurup

Riesling

Oh yeah. You just have to love Porongurup riesling. The 2025 vintage, albeit slightly warmer, worked really well as a vintage in the cooler climes of the Porongurup. There's tremendous intensity initially on the nose, with a lemon rind and slightly pithy emerging character. A little spice and bath salts, and then a palate that is deeply intense, with good,...

Porongurup

Riesling

Everything about this wine says elegance and refinement, even the beautifully tapered bottle. The aromas are distinctly mineral and spicy, with some lovely stone-washed characters, a faint hint of bath salts and a little lemon essence. The palate keeps that fine tension, but it's under control and still allows the fruit to express itself quite beautifully. Nice talcy acidity. A...

Mount Barker

Riesling

Okay, so we're taking things up a notch here with riesling. The aromas are more mineral with a little lemon zest and some subtle bath-salt influences. The palate shows a degree of tension and some slatey, wet-pebble characters, but it also carries the beautiful, pristine fruit qualities of the 2026 vintage. The finish is precise and long, but that lovely...

Great Southern

Riesling

The prettiness and fruit clarity of the '26 vintage in the Great Southern are clearly on display here. It is such a beautiful entry-level riesling for Singlefile, but it delivers a lot more than that. Floral, spicy citrus notes on the nose and a thoroughly delightful, textured palate, but with a fine, restrained acidity that carries through to a long...

Great Southern

Riesling

A bracing, tense, and crunchy riesling sourced from three sub-regions within the Great Southern. Distinctive citrus and minerality on the nose with a slightly slatey, spicy character. The palate carries plenty of intensity with a citrusy, lemony, meringue-like flavour combo. And that slightly wet slatey minerality adding definition. Intense, long, and a wine with some cellaring potential.

Great Southern

Riesling

Quite simply one of the state’s finest rieslings. It’s from the oldest vineyard block on the estate. The nose has a distinct crystalline, mineral, lemony aroma, with a fairly typical Great Southern spiciness. Then the palate is awash with slatey, wet, pebbly characters, edgy lemon and lime, and a little cut pear. It’s a precisely linear wine with tremendous depth...

Great Southern

Riesling

Here’s a wine that captures the vineyard site. Planted dry-grown in 1975, it delivers incredibly intense and powerful aromas of lemon and lime, with spicy, chalky, basalt characters. The palate is quite textured, with really fine, precise acidity holding it through to an extended finish. A distinctive wine, with crunchy, quartz-like characters providing such a compelling addition to the palate.

Great Southern

Riesling

Although the vineyards at Forest Hill go back to 1965, this one is sourced from several sites. It really is a quite beautiful wine, capturing the vintage, which was very good for white wines, rather well. Spicy lemon zest and mineral notes on the nose are intense. Then the palate, as always, is powerfully defined and linear, with tremendous mineral,...

Frankland River

Riesling

The purity and clarity of this Frankland riesling captures the intensity of the season, but in this southern zone, releases it in a very friendly, almost delicate manner. Minerally lemon notes on the nose, some nice spices. A little of the wet, pebbly, stonewash character. Palate is keen and crisp with a fine lemony, minerally combination, sustained by a precise...

Frankland River

Riesling

A tight, bracing, and tense riesling from Frankland River. Aromas of lemon and spice with a little cut lime, and a palate that is minerally and linear, with excellent intensity, showing a fine, chalky acidity. There's a little rub of lemon zest adding a nice finishing feature.

Mount Barker

Riesling

How good is it to see rieslings held back so that they can really begin to show what they can become after they emerge from the period of youthful exuberance. This one has just started to move into its secondary zone. Bang. Slightly marmalade preserved lemon and lime combination. Palate is quite beautiful. It's started to develop the richness you...

Frankland River

Riesling

A wine of incredible vibrancy and intensity. '26 was a very good season for white wines across the state, and this is a cracking good example of what was made in Frankland in this season. Minerally lemon pith and slightly slaty, wet-pebble characters. The palate then has a degree of tension but carries good weight and focused intensity. Lovely slippery...

Porongurup

Riesling

In this wine, Diletti has honoured the efforts of his parents, Angelo and Wendy, who started Castle Rock way back in the day. It’s a wine that builds on the natural purity of Porongurup riesling, but with the addition of whole-bunch pressings adding some further structure and phenolic tension. It is a marvellous example of what can be achieved without...

Porongurup

Riesling

This is a sort of entry-level riesling, if you like. An immediately approachable wine with soft acidity but wonderful fruit characters exhibiting on the floral, minerally nose, and then the finely balanced, pure, crisp palate. Has an absolutely beautiful mouthfeel with a slightly talcy bath-salts character emerging. If you’re wanting to get into your rieslings, this one is right on...

Porongurup

Riesling

This is such a beautifully complete and expressive riesling from the Porongurup. Diletti is a master of his craft, and in this finely balanced, deeply intense riesling, those skills are well to the fore. The palate has a spicy, minerally, citrus combination which leads into a wine that is fine and linear, with a high degree of tension but wonderful...

Frankland River

Riesling

This is a real crunchy, lively, fruity riesling sourced out of Frankland River in this warm year. The nose displays a slightly bath salty sherbet like character with liberal spices and lemony notes. The palate is zingy with a minerally edge and plenty of citrus notes. Drinking quite beautifully now, but as you would expect, it has cellaring potential.

Margaret River

Riesling

Despite all the naysaying about the appropriateness of riesling in Margaret River, this wine, year in, year out, produces quite beautiful expressions of this variety. And this is certainly one of the best. Nice floral notes with citrus, lemon pith, and a little orange pulpiness on the nose. The palate has a minerally zinginess about it, with a crisp acidity...

Frankland River

Riesling

This comes from some of the oldest riesling vines in the state. It looks like '26 was a very good year, and this pure, vibrant, minerally riesling expresses it. Made from free-run juice, which heightens its tension and purity. The aromas are of lemons and florals, while the palate has precise acidity supporting good fruit weight. Displaying a slightly pithy...

Mount Barker

Riesling

The aromas are powerful and the intensity immediately evident. Sourced from the Wyjup South block and made entirely from free-run juice, the aim is to preserve vineyard purity through a minimalist approach from vineyard to bottle. It has tremendous intensity and a tense acidity that drives to a very long finish. Notes of red apple and preserved lemon add complexity....

Mount Barker

Riesling

This takes the Three Lions range up a notch. Careful vineyard management, including different picking times, adds complexity and completeness to the wine. It displays the region's typical spicy sea spray character on the nose. The palate is powerfully defined with intensity and length while retaining a degree of tension that carries through to a long, linear finish. It was...

Mount Barker

Riesling

Opens with a distinctive spicy bath salts aroma, typical of the region. This is from the Wyjup North vineyard and includes more pressings to give it greater phenolic texture. These vines were established in 1971. The beautifully textured palate is both powerful and long, with the structure and intensity to reward cellaring. It was made entirely in stainless steel, allowing...

Mount Barker

Riesling

One of the most consistent rieslings produced in the Great Southern. This was a very good vintage for riesling, and this wine captures it beautifully. Aromas of bath salts, lemon powder and a subtle spicy lift lead into a palate of exceptional balance and delicacy. Distinctive spicy lemon flavours extend with precision and a fine linear focus. Another excellent wine...

Mount Barker

Riesling

In a warm year, the southern vineyards in the state performed quite well for the white varieties. This is a dry-style riesling with plenty to like about it. Floral, citrusy aromatics are immediately apparent, while the palate has settled into a groove with a minerally, spicy character complemented by natural citrus edges. The palate is controlled by fine, lingering acidity....

Mount Barker

Riesling

Over the years, some quite exceptional rieslings have come off this little vineyard just north of Mount Barker. Typically, the aromas are a combination of lime and lemon with a slightly spicy, mineral nuance. The palate is deeply intense but delivers with a degree of 2025 delicacy, and the dry finish is long. There's a beautiful mouthfeel about this riesling,...

Frankland River

Riesling

This comes off the Swinney vineyard. There's a distinctive crisp lemony character here with its slick minerally iron filings character. It was left on light lees in a mix of tank and foudres adding a subtle textural feel. Has a tight edgy lemon character on the finish which gives it focus and definition. It was aged on fine lees for...

Porongurup

Riesling

The fruit for this comes from the excellent Shepherd’s Hut in the Porongurup. Has a distinctive spicy character, which you get from rieslings in this region. All stainless steel with nine months on ferment lees to get texture and less manipulative winemaking in the winery. High acid. Love the textured mouthfeel of this wine. It’s more European in style. The...

Porongurup

Riesling

This has developed into one of the state's finest and most consistent rieslings. It comes from the cooler environs of the Porongurup, and on the nose there’s a flinty, crushed wet pebble character working with a spicy, lemony citrus touch. The palate delivers a distinctly linear but intense flavour profile with chalky acidity, citrus notes, and regional minerality. It's delicate...

Frankland River

Riesling

It's pretty obvious that riesling in 2025 has emerged as a highlight variety. This one is an excellent example of the season. The aromas show a subtle lemon pith minerality with some quite distinctive spiciness, which you sometimes get in the Great Southern. The palate offers intense fruit with a lovely texture while still retaining that fine linear structure sustained...

Great Southern

Riesling

The spicy lemon rind aromatics are immediately striking in this positively exquisite riesling from the Great Southern. Three Drops has emerged as one of the best producers of this variety, and in a good season like this, it has really excelled. It’s fine and crisp, with a typically linear line carrying through to a very long finish. Crunchy, spicy minerality...

Great Southern

Riesling

This is a slightly riper and more generous style of riesling, especially on the nose, where you pick up more opulent notes of stone fruit and a little honey-like nectar. Yet the palate tightens up as it should, revealing a minerally, spicy character, with citrus tangs building. It has a fine talcy acidity and the flavour and palate are long....

Great Southern

Riesling

The more I see of the rieslings from 2025, the more convinced I am that this will be remembered as one of the finest vintages yet for this aromatic variety. This one is superb, with dominant lemon citrus and a little spice, plus just a touch of zestiness that lifts both nose and palate. It is delightfully balanced and deeply...

Great Southern

Riesling

This is quite a punchy riesling from what seems to be already a very good year. It has a typical Great Southern spicy nuance which merges into the more traditional citrus characters. There's a little crunchy green apple and a faint stone-fruit-like character. The palate is fine, controlled, high line-linear with a degree of tension keeping it on track. It...

Great Southern

Riesling

This is a highly textural and complex take on riesling from the Great Southern. The aroma is a scrape of lemon rind, with spices and green apple. The palate is where this really begins to sing with its spicy textural flavours, deep intensity, and striking length. Garland really does excel in making this style of riesling.

Frankland River

Riesling

Alkoomi has long been one of the best riesling producers in the state, and this pure, almost pristine expression of Frankland riesling is superb. Only the free-run juice has been used, creating a wine of delicate character yet with the intensity of the region. Lively, with a nice degree of tension that drives the long, linear palate. Touches of bath...