$210.00
The rich red loam soils of Block G1 from Gullyview Vineyard in Leasingham, within the sub-region of Watervale, have been producing renowned, award-winning Riesling for over forty years.
The Penna Lane Watervale Riesling is true to the style of this famous Riesling region, offering both generous fruit flavours and a fine acid profile.
The wine can be enjoyed while young and fresh and it will also develop further with cellaring.
A Riesling that is true to style and region, sourced from around Leasingham, where there are, and have been over many years, some of the finest Rieslings in the country made. The aroma is a lemon pith, tart lime, and slightly minerally combination, and the palate shows a typical tension, and yet there is a deep intensity. The generous fruit flavours are tightened by the crisp acidity, which focuses and extends the palate. That crunchy, pebbly minerality on the finish is a feature.
Ray Jordan, Winepilot
Score: 94/100 Drink by 2025 – 2035
This is from a vineyard at Leasingham in the famed sub-region of South Australia’s Clare Valley. Its a frisky riesling, and a long-flavoured one, with lime juice and lime leaf flavours floating into bath salts, florals, rust and steel. Both freshness and length are its best friends, courtesy of its long, lean, scintillating flavour prefile. It needs either super-fresh seafood or a stint in the cellar to show its best.
Campbell Mattinson, Mattinson
Score: 92+points
I think they must be keen for me to taste this because they sent the wines twice within a week or so. I usually prefer the Watervale from this producer over the Skilly, though in 2025 it’s the other way round.
Lime, almost peachy, a bit of spice, lemongrass and bath salts. It’s all ripe lime and tangerine with a gin and tonic sorbet flavour, citrus zest with slightly green acidity, distinctly chalky, a little rugged and grainy in texture on a finish of good length featuring a fair bit of bitter lemon. In short, it’s flavoursome but a bit too tangy (at least as at now).
Gary Walsh, Winefront
Score: 91+ points Drink 2025 – 2031+
