Howard Park Flint Rock Riesling 2025
- 93
- $30
- Drink by: 2026-2040
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You are now entering the Great Southern region where Riesling is queen. The scent says as much with its lifted lime, lemon and grapefruit citrus accompanied by apple blossom florals. So pretty. This young ’25 Riesling has a decidedly delicate side so it is best not to over-chill. If you do, you will miss some of the nuance, the crystalline notes, the green apple brightness, the touch of grapefruit pith and the awakening of a lovely textural quality to the wine. Overall, a really compelling wine right now and dare I suggest well into the future. Past vintages certainly indicate as much – history is on your side with this lovely Rizza.
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.
