Riesling

Frankland River

Riesling

You’re doing pretty well to get a quality riesling like this for around the $20 mark. It has all the character you want, with citrus florals on the nose and a crisp, linear, crunchy palate delivering through to a long finish. This really is an ideal summer drink, with that slight, powdery bath salts edge adding interest.

Great Southern

Riesling

There have been some marvellous rieslings from this small vineyard in the Great Southern. This one shows the typical restraint and spiciness with a deceptive build-up of intensity on the palate. Distinctive lemon zest and spice on the nose, and a fine, delicate palate with precise acidity. Drinking beautifully now, yet with the inherent qualities to handle extended cellaring.

Geographe

Riesling

These rieslings from Talisman continue to be some of the best released in WA, and this is another cracking good wine, capturing all the elements of the variety and what seems to be a regional character as well. On the nose, you get all of the minerally citrus characters, even with a little bit of red apple on the palate....

Mount Barker

Riesling

The best parcels of fruit from the Langton Vineyard have been selected for this impressive riesling. The distinguishing feature is its fine linear structure, but at the same time, it has a subtle texture and a lovely pure fruit character. A lovely lemony, zesty lick of acid carries the finish, which is very long and precise. Impressive wine.

Mount Barker

Riesling

This consistently delivers some of the best value riesling, and this one is from a season that turned out very nicely for the variety. It comes from the Langton Vineyard and is selected from the best blocks. It's a crisp, fine and slightly spicy style, typical of this part of Mount Barker. Subtle hints of lime with a zesty, crisp...

Western Australia

Riesling

A remarkably pure and pristine riesling displaying an initial slaty lemon and lime mix on the nose. The palate has a tension and linear structure which proceeds with lancing accuracy to a very long and lifted finish. A pronounced minerality adds a further level of character and flare.

Great Southern

Riesling

Now this is quite an interesting take on traditional Aussie rieslings. After hand-picking and whole bunch pressing it was partially barrel fermented. After that, there was little intervention, and the result is a pure expression of variety and vineyard. With a textured, flavoursome palate retaining its linear focus. Distinct lemon pitch aromas lift.

Mount Barker

Riesling

Wow, this is something else. Fine, delicate and yet sustained and intense. This is a wonderful showcase of Porongurup riesling with its minerally spicy tension evident. It’s so pristine and pure, with a bracing yet fine acidity that lances to an extraordinarily long finish.

Frankland River

Riesling

Beautiful, just beautiful. Intense aromas of lemon zest and bath salts lift immediately on the nose. The fruit is sourced from the two best blocks on the Riversdale Vineyard. The palate has a crunchy vibrancy with a lively flow that bounces off the slaty wet pebble character. Precise and pure with tremendous cellaring potential.

Frankland River

Riesling

This excellent riesling comes from three vineyards – Riversdale, Acacia and Justin. There’s a bracing tension here, evident initially on the nose with the minerally flinty characters and then on the palate, where it is so precise and finely focused. Has just a slight bath salts edge adding to the finish.

Frankland River

Riesling

This is a marvellous example of a Frankland River riesling that is just starting its journey into the next phase. It was made in a clay cement ovoid tank with the continual lees movement contributing to its generous and deep, textured palate. Has a nice lemon fragrance and palate character. Very attractive wine.

Great Southern

Riesling

This is a fine and quite delicate riesling from the Great Southern. Perfumed notes of lemon and Jasmine with a slaty granite character. The palate is finely balanced with a fine acidity sustaining through to the finish. Clean and crisp with a distinct lemon zest palate character.

Mount Barker

Riesling

As with other whites in the Dream Bird portfolio, a little lees stirring has been used to build in just that subtle degree of texture while not compromising the fine linear line that is riesling. Typically, citrusy notes with a little musk and a slightly crunchy minerality. There's an intensity of flavour here, but it's held and focused through to...

Mount Barker

Riesling

Opens with a faint lemon aroma and some subtle bath salt characters. It was a hot year, but they managed to avoid the heat spike at the end. The fruit in the end was of exceptional quality. There is power and intensity here, and a remarkably pure and vibrant minerally crunchy basalt character. It’s very long and is all free...

Great Southern

Riesling

This is such an intense and concentrated riesling packed with crunchy, minerally fruit. On the nose, a combination of lemon pith and musk with hints of Jasmine. The palate is so crunchy and almost juicy with a minerally citrus tang. Very long finish with a fine acidity creating a lively refreshing palate.

Frankland River

Riesling

There’s considerable intensity in this finely crafted Frankland River riesling. The aromas are slightly citrusy and spicy, with subtle floral notes and just a trace of bath salts. The palate has a slatey, minerally character interlaced with classic citrus tones. It shows a degree of tension and precision, yet maintains a controlled and defined textural feel.

Frankland River

Riesling

A wine that displays so much of what is good about Frankland River and this variety. It was a warmer year, but good vineyard management has enabled the creation of a very precise and focused riesling. A striking feature is its slightly textural feel, while retaining the fine, crisp, citrusy minerality that gives it linear structure. An excellent wine with...

Mount Barker

Riesling

One of the great joys in wine is drinking mature rieslings, and this one is excellent, really only just beginning its journey. It still has some primary fruit, but it’s starting to develop those slightly toasty lime characters that become so appealing with mature rieslings. It retains good primary fruit characters on the palate, and the fine, persistent acidity will...

Margaret River

Riesling

Leeuwin Estate has stuck with its riesling over the years, and it's a good thing too. In the best years, it really does come up trumps and this one stacks up with any previous releases. It's one of the finest and most delicately presented rieslings I can recall from Leeuwin, with a sort of talcy, bath salts character, albeit somewhat...

Mount Barker

Riesling

Here's a wine of tensile precision that says so much about its relatively higher altitude region near Mount Barker. On the nose, there's a sort of bath salts, minerally, floral note, while the tension and minerality on the palate say so much about the vineyard and the variety. It's fine, it's precise, and yet there is a subtle textural component...

Porongurup

Riesling

This is a lovely, fine and delicate riesling, showing good flavour intensity, with a tense minerality balance, with some lovely fruit characters. It’s a blend of Castle Rock vineyards and provides a delightful, immediate drinking style of wine. It's fine, it's lingering, and there's so much happening here, as it extends with precision and drive through to a sustained finish....

Porongurup

Riesling

Another cracking riesling from this wonderful Porongurup vineyard, under the expert gaze of winemaker Rob Diletti. This one captures the season perfectly. You get all the fresh vibrant intensity that is riesling, but it gets delivered with an almost understated textural feel. The nose has a slight lemon scent with deeper notes of lemon pith, and an obvious talcy and...

Frankland River

Riesling

It's no surprise that winemaker Jeremy Gordon has turned to Frankland River to source riesling for this wine. It's a variety well suited to the region, and this was a great year. It was wild fermented and then just went into small stainless steel vessels. It shows the typical tight zesty minerality with a little flinty, tense wet pebble complexity....

Geographe

Riesling

A first-rate riesling that was unaffected by the extreme heat of the vintage. It’s crisp and pure with a refreshing flavour profile, but there is texture here, resulting from adding some solids and a two-month period of lees stirring. Even the pressings were fermented. So, this is riesling with some real character.

Mount Barker

Riesling

It was a warm year, yet this has turned out to be a delicate and quite restrained riesling. It was picked early and shows lovely high-end florals on the nose with subtle lemon scents. The palate has a grainy textural purity with a fine lingering acid holding a tight line to a long finish. A fine minerally thread defines.

Great Southern

Riesling

Strikes with great aromatic intensity displaying string lemon citrus characters. This is a lively and fragrant riesling from the Great Southern displaying fresh citrus and appley, cut pear characters on the palate. It’s clean and fresh with a sustained finish.

South West

Riesling

There is a powerful intensity and drive here, in a riesling offering tonnes of flavour. Aromas of lemon citrus with a cutting lime component. The palate is intensely flavoured with a precise and very long finish. Ever so slight hint of residual sugar adds the piece for an enjoyable current drinking wine.

Mount Barker

Riesling

Another first-rate riesling from this small Mount Barker producer. From the start, riesling has been a consistent standout, and even in this very season, the quality is excellent. It is one of the best rieslings I have tasted from this vintage. Fine and linear with a lively energised aroma and palate. Lemon zest and spicy bath salts with a crisp...

Mount Barker

Riesling

This was picked a month earlier than 2023 and comes from the younger vines and includes some of the Geisenheim clones. Has a distinctive beeswax aroma with plenty of bright talcy bath salts character. Has good depth and long flavours with a fine acidity sustaining the finish. Has a lovely bright fruit character to it.

Mount Barker

Riesling

A more fragrant and lively wine that was planted in 1975. First made in 2018 as a result of pushing riesling further with more texture based on the Germanic style. Has a nice line and minerality. It gets about 15 to 20% fermentation in an oak foudre. The aim is to get a little productive funk into it. Very attractive...

Mount Barker

Riesling

Lightly perfumed and delightful aromas of lime and light talc. It was a very good year, and it was a late season allowing the fruit to build up easily. It’s stainless steel fermented but has an extended time on lees. The palate is the key. It’s powerful with texture and talcy threads with liberal spices. It has a slightly limey...

Great Southern

Riesling

This is a slightly different take on this variety, certainly from the usual Australian approach. It’s had a small amount barrel fermentation which adds to it texturally and aromatically, creating a complex wine. On the nose more stone fruit characters emerge, and then the palate retains its taut acidity but with a slightly richer texture of fruit. It’s a nice...

Geographe

Riesling

Some Old-World techniques are adopted with this riesling, and they seem to have worked rather well in this difficult year, producing a wine with a degree of depth and palate texture that elevates it from many of the rieslings from ’24. Retains a crisp minerality and slightly spicy, musk and lemon zest character. Nice wine.

Geographe

Riesling

A light and fragrant riesling displaying minerally and delicately citrus influenced aromas. The palate has a spicy edge to the natural lemon citrus tang with a crisp fine acidity to extend. Nice wine over a shorter period.

Geographe

Riesling

This shows the versatility of riesling which can be made into a very good sparkling wine. This one is such good drinking. Aromas display citrus with a little lemon rind edginess. The palate is clean and crisp with a sustained precise finish. Lovely lick of acid on the finish adds a lift.

Great Southern

Riesling

A riesling with a distinctive character that has much to do with the making approach of wild yeast fermentation and this part of the world. A highly individual aroma of spicy citrus with a little musk stick complexity. The approach in the winery also introduced a textural element to distinguish it from other rieslings. So well balanced and finished.

Great Southern

Riesling

This is a most impressive riesling that captures the spicy intensity and subtle lemon scents of the Great Southern. The nose is engaging with the powdery lemon zest characters. The palate reveals a subtle textural feel with a fine acidity sustaining the finish.

Pemberton

Riesling

The little extra time in bottle really has this Pemberton riesling humming. Starting to merge the original lemony citrus florals with new and emerging notes of light toast. There’s delightful floral minerality adding to the complexity with a fine lingering finish. I think I would prefer to drink this while the primary fruit characters are just seeing the first hint...

Great Southern

Riesling

A more restrained riesling than previous years but it has managed to capture the citrussy florals of this variety sourced from Mount Barker, the Porongurup and Denmark. It’s a precise and linear wine with a slightly spicy regional character. Nice wine in the shorter term.

Frankland River

Riesling

The heat in Frankland tested every bit of viticultural expertise to achieve quality fruit. This one has emerged in good shape. It comes from the distinctive Powderbark vineyard with the lemon zest characters well to the fore. It’s a lightly fragrant and nicely defined riesling with length and precision.