2025 Jim Barry The Florita Riesling Half Bottle 375ml, Clare Valley

Please note that this is the 375mL (half bottle) format of this wine.

Another fine age-worthy, scintillating bottling with chalk, gun smoke, lime zest, yuzu, fresh peppercorns and wet slate. The palate is taut and mineral with a salivating, tense and long mineral finish. This will tickle the riesling lover's fancy straight away but this wine is always best after five to ten years. Drink or hold. 

96 points Ryan Montgomery for James Suckling, September 2026

The 2025 The Florita Riesling is spicy and tightly coiled, water white in the glass and layered with notes of citrus pith, pressed flowers and marmalade. In the mouth, the wine is mostly tense and focused, while the middle palate reveals some richness and toastiness, which is an attractive offset to the acidity. This is very good, as usual; although as usual, I find myself wanting to drink this as an older wine, since that is where the joy truly lies. It will live for 20 years without a fuss. Drink 2026 to 2045.

95+ points Erin Larkin for The Wine Advocate

Electric riesling. This has it all. Vim and vigour driven by tart citrus fruit characters, a glacial, saline core, crunchy green apple, touches of slate and river pebble, and a general sense of being brittle, crisp and laced with distinct minerality. So refreshing and energetic in its dart-shaped, slim-line frame. Pristine as all get out, too. In its vogue, this is stupendous. Drink 2025 to 2035.

95 points Mike Bennie for Halliday Wine Companion, January 2026

Pale colour; shy, elusive nose, taking its time to produce lime, nettle and floral nuances. It's quite backward on the palate. Dry but soft and juicy, undeveloped at present, while the palate has lovely texture, is seamless and refined, and promises much if cellared. Drink to 2040.

93 points Huon Hooke for The Real Review, January 2026

Jim Barry was the first qualified winemaker in the Clare Valley, and the business he founded in 1959 has remained in family hands across three generations since. In 1964 he purchased 70 acres of prime farmland from neighbour Duncan McRae Wood to plant his first Shiraz vineyard. An inspired choice of both variety and location that set the course for everything that followed.

The current custodians of the family business are Peter & Sue Barry, while the third generation of Barry’s, Tom, Sam and Olivia, work as winemaker, commercial manager and brand ambassador respectively.