Henschke Green’s Hill Adelaide Hills Riesling 2025

A rebirth of sorts, the 2025 vintage marks the first vintage to be made following the Cudlee Creek bushfires that devastated parts of the Adelaide Hills in 2019. It is fitting that the vineyard overlooks the Lenswood apple orchards, for the scent of apples on this wine is present and quite invigorating. Aromas of apple, stewed apple, acacia, grapefruit and aromatic florals offer an inviting introduction to a deeply concentrated young Riesling. Phenolics are in play offering grip and tension on the palate as flavours embrace the gamut of citrus – lime, lemon, grapefruit – and, yes, cut apple, against background florals. Brings some of that cool climate, juicy, firm Adelaide Hills acidity to the forefront of the wine offering excellent line and length . . . and potential to age. One to consider for the cellar.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.

Wine writer and critic