Henschke Peggy’s Hill Eden Valley Riesling 2025
- 92
- $28
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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An anniversary vintage celebrating 20 years of Peggy’s Hill. Coincidentally, the maker suggests the ’25 will age for 20-plus years, but those heady floral aromatics matched to an already high drinkability factor means it can be enjoyed sooner, capturing the vitality that is there right now. Florals shine in citrus blossom, spring flowers, acacia with honeysuckle married to plenty of fresh citrus fruits and super bright acidity. There’s also an easy textural flow to the wine that also makes it good drinking now. The lead into the 2025 vintage in the Eden Valley was one of the hottest and driest in living memory, but Peggy’s Hill delivers another strong Henshcke Riesling masterclass.
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.
