Mitchell Watervale Riesling 2025
- 95
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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Those who inexplicably did not fill their cellars with the great Clare Rieslings from vintages like 2021 and 2022, along with a few others, have been given a reprieve (not that I’m sure they deserve it – not to have done so seems a grave miscalculation). It does seem that 2025 is yet another stellar vintage. The team at Mitchell have been making top-notch Riesling since the 1970s, so they know what they’re doing. From the Watervale sub-region, yellow/straw in colour, this is intensely aromatic offering notes of limes, florals, lemon curd, wet slate, dry herbs and grapefruit. The wine is balanced, seamless and has serious intensity. The focus never wavers at any stage along the journey and the wine exhibits most impressive length. It will drink beautifully and improve for at least the next fifteen years, longer if you want.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
