Penna Lane Watervale Riesling 2025

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Ray Jordan - Winepilot

A Riesling that is true to style and region, sourced from around Leasingham, where there are, and have been over many years, some of the finest Rieslings in the country made. The aroma is a lemon pith, tart lime, and slightly minerally combination, and the palate shows a typical tension, and yet there is a deep intensity. The generous fruit flavours are tightened by the crisp acidity, which focuses and extends the palate. That crunchy, pebbly minerality on the finish is a feature.

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Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Clare Valley Riesling in its newest release—often the same year it was picked—is a most exciting thing. It's perfumed and floral, lifted and aromatic, with chalk and talc, lime flesh and green apple and loads of springtime flowers. These are piercingly acidic yet succulent and fleshy wines, and they meld harmoniously with our Mediterranean-like summers here in Australia. So, this 2025 Watervale Riesling is everything described above, and despite the perhaps challenging season that was 2025 (hot, very dry, frosts in spring 2024), this displays none of the challenge, and all of the benefits of Clare Valley and Riesling when paired together. 10.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.

91 POINTS

Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

I think they must be keen for me to taste this because they sent the wines twice within a week or so. I usually prefer the Watervale from this producer over the Skilly, though in 2025 it’s the other way round. Lime, almost peachy, a bit of spice, lemongrass and bath salts. It’s all ripe lime and tangerine with a gin and tonic sorbet flavour, cirrus zest with slightly green acidity, distinctly chalky, a little rugged and grainy in texture on a finish of good length featuring a fair bit of bitter lemon. In short, it’s flavoursome but a bit too tangy.