2025 Grosset Springvale Riesling

96 POINTS

Mike Bennie - Halliday Wine Companion

This was tasted in the full vigour of its youth, and yet there's an approachability and ease of drinking here. This has lemon-lime fruit as an underpinning, green apple crunch, a talc and brine-like mineral combination, some green herbs and a dash of tonic water, too. It's compact and yet holds a juiciness at its core; the big reveal is just how much flavour is packed in here. There's a wet river pebble feel to texture. Very classic in its feel; a class act.

96 POINTS

Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

You get flashy aromatics, mid-palate fruit flesh and intensity, and a penetrating drive of flavour through the finish. This wine is only a few months old but already, it offers a lot. It will get better. Lime juice, grapefruit, citrus peel, a keen Riverstone character and exquisite length. This is textbook in the best of ways.

95 POINTS

Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2025 Springvale Riesling is taut and thrumming aromatically: notes of lemon zest, talc, scratched soapstone and white flowers predominate. In the mouth, the wine is fleshy in its fruit profile yet austere in its acid attack, and together, these make for an awkward pairing in youth. Like a successful arranged marriage, these two extremes will eventually unite, bringing together the best of the warm days and the cold nights that were experienced early in the growing season. There was a significant frost in September of 2024 that damaged some fruit set and vineyards early in the season. Not all vineyards were affected, but it was a bitter blow for those that were, having experienced a similarly damaging frost the spring prior. The 2025 season rolled out with extremely dry conditions, which was felt right across the South Australian state. For those who were able to coax and manage their vineyards through these challenging conditions, the wines are fantastic and, like this Springvale Riesling, will show themselves to be excellent in years to come. I'd be inclined to allow this a year or so of grace in the cellar prior to embarking. 12.3% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.

93 POINTS

Christina Pickard - Wine Enthusiast

This is a tightly wound, young flinty—almost smokey—style of Clare Valley Riesling from one of the region's longstanding cheerleaders. There's delicate lavender and stone fruit characters riding atop a core of minerality to start. The palate strikes a quite lovely balance between pithy texture and crunchy acidity, a lemony freshness lingering on the finish.