Hatch Clare Watervale Riesling 2025

After a long and distinguished career with some of our larger producers, Chris Hatcher has gone out on his own and is creating scintillating wines of precision. This is a superb Clare Valley Riesling from the Watervale sub-region, from the increasingly impressive vintage of 2025. Great value as well. Hatch, as he is known by all, compares the wine to jazz. That seems extremely unfair. I actually really like it. A very pale steely lemon/green hue, this is textbook stuff. Clean and fresh with drive, length and direction, the nose gives us notes of limes, florals, lemon curd and wet pebbles. The focus of an arrow and the balance of a circus performer, this is from the leaner end of the spectrum with a line of bright, zippy acidity. A cracker. It will provide fifteen to twenty years of pleasure.