The Lane Gathering Adelaide Hills Riesling 2025

Adelaide Hills Riesling lives in the shadow of Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc, but it doesn’t necessarily deserve that role. Here’s why. Aromatics spring to life in white florals, honeysuckle, citrus, lime skin and pinches of lemongrass, Asian lime and ginger. A full, expressive wine awaits. Maybe it’s the creamy texture, something just emerging in other ’25 Rieslings, but it really works with the richness of the citrus and apple and earthy herbal notes that start to feature on the palate in this wine in rosemary and Thai basil.  It’s a complexity enhanced by a honeysuckle liveliness and shiny acidity. This is a wine that can take on rich Chinese and Asian flavours with ease. Silky rice noodles and BBQ pork anyone?

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