Petaluma Hanlin Hill Riesling 2025
- 94
- $38
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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From the time this wine was originally created by Brian Croser, it has been among the best releases each year. It’s sourced from Clare, and on the opening, you get an immediate hit of that engaging mix of lime and lemon zest. Deeper within, there’s a sort of richer orange and lemon pulpiness which adds some texture with other stone fruits. Yet that fine lingering acidity and precision and a slightly talcy acidity provide that linear mouthfeel but still with a textural touch. An excellent wine to drink now or whack away in the cellar for a good ten years.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
