Grosset Springvale Riesling 2026

96 POINTS

Mike Bennie - Halliday Wine Companion

This is peak and pitch-perfect Grosset Springvale. Tension meets an approachable juiciness. It's redolent of all the citrus fruits, from yellow to green to orange, with green apple and blackcurrant leaf. The flavours are similarly set, with a chalky minerality chiming in. Deliciousness abounds. All of this with a quiet power, a grace, and exceptional length. In essence, it delivers on the promise of quality while nailing down drinkability. Something to strive for.

95 POINTS

Ray Jordan - Winepilot

This comes from the Watervale sub-region within the Clare region. It is another wonderful example of what Jeff Grosset is producing. In this case, it reflects the slightly more minerally character of this vineyard and this sub-region, but with obvious floral citrus notes over the top. The palate typically displays a high degree of tension, but there’s also a core of pithy, lemony fruit that adds texture and complexity to the middle palate. It’s a bracing wine displaying certain musk-like characters, as well as the typical citrus tones, with that lick of lemon providing the final flourish to the finish.

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Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

I tasted this wine with MB last weekend and thought it was really good, though I’m trying it again now in the slightly quieter environs of my home (I make most of the noise, if you’re wondering, though as my mum used to say ‘You’d make trouble in an empty room’.) Lime, white flowers, cut fennel, green cardamom, a light spicy note. Quite juicy, but there’s also a light chalky grip here, white pepper and apple cucumber coolness, lime rind, a little quinine bite and perfume on a finish of excellent length. It’s a delicious wine, and quite approachable now for my tastes, though of course it will age surely too.