2025 Pewsey Vale Riesling, Eden Valley

This wine marks another debut appearance in our Best In Show selection – for Eden Valley Riesling, though we've featured Eden Valley Shiraz/Syrah here in the past. It's a young wine and light on its feet (just 11.5%). Riesling here manages, remarkably enough, to deliver full-season fruit complexities at this strength since phenolic ripeness continues, in the High Eden's skeletal soils, even after sugar ripeness has slowed, including in very warm vintages like that of 2025. It's an enticingly aromatic wine with a tumble of blossom blowing about an aromatic core of zesty lemon, lime, fresh dessert apple and early season nectarine. On the palate, the wine is bright and tangy with racy apple and rhubarb acidity; it has ample mid-palate wealth and poised texture, then the blossoms come blowing back to lift its brisk, mouth-freshening finish. Its Eden Valley pedigree suggests that this beautifully vinified wine will age well, too.

Best In Show 97 points Platinum Decanter World Wine Awards

Riesling sourced from a single vineyard way up around 490m elevation in Pewsey Vale. Classic Eden Valley characters from woe to go. Fresh limes, Christmas lily, citrus blossom, crushed stone, lemongrass, Bickford's lime cordial and ozone. Dry, precise and thirst-slakingly good drinking. Super stuff; we all need a bottle of this close at hand when the weather warms up.

94 points Special Value Dave Brookes winecompanion.com.au

From the high, cool slopes of Eden Valley, this Riesling delivers purity, drive and classic lime scented precision at a price that makes it one of Australia’s great white wine bargains. Pewsey Vale has been crafting Riesling since the 1840s, making it one of the country’s most historic vineyards, and the altitude and rocky soils here naturally produce wines of piercing acidity and long lived structure. It is a benchmark expression of Eden Valley style, showing just how much character and pedigree can be packed into an everyday bottle.

Pale straw with green flashes, the aromas burst with fresh lime zest, lemon blossom and green apple, layered with subtle talc and a stony mineral note. The palate is racy and mouthwatering, with intense citrus flavours, a fine chalky texture and a long, dry finish that snaps with freshness. There is real energy and precision here, making it brilliant with oysters, prawns, Vietnamese herbs and chilli, grilled fish, or simple goat’s cheese.

Delicious now for its vibrancy, it will also cellar beautifully for ten to fifteen years, developing classic toast, honey and beeswax complexity. Few wines offer this level of pedigree, freshness and ageing ability at such outstanding value.