2025 Regional Riesling

Ravensworth 2025 Regional Riesling
Collection: Regional
Vintage: 2025
GI: Canberra
Vineyard source: Long Rail Gully, Fisher Vineyard, Briar Hill & Ravensworth
Harvest date: 3rd - 6th March
Processing: A little skin contact for 8 hours, pressed to vessel
Élevage: 6 months - 12 months
Vessels: Flow Form Ceramic eggs, Nico velo Tulips & Stockinger Foudre
Vintage conditions: Dry, warm, early season
Bottling date: November 2025 - April 2026 (Planned)
Production: 1000 dozen
Cellaring: 10+ years
Something interesting: Riesling is a mid-season ripener, comes in just before Shiraz.
Drink with: Seafood - particularly scallops and other molluscs - conversely, roast pork

Ravensworth 2025 Regional Riesling
This is a savoury-leaning yet scintillating riesling. It doesn’t scrimp on pickled lime, preserved lemon, ginger, lemongrass and green apple scents and then relays the same in concentrated flavours. Green almond calls in, a little jalapeno and white balsamic lift too. Intense, vibrant, exceptional persistence and heaps of character. At $32 RRP this is ludicrously interesting and good, and willingly steps out of rote winemaking to do so. Kudos.
94 Points Mike Bennie, The Winefront

Such an uplifting, crisply dry and ultra-refreshing wine. Pristine, beautiful aromas and flavours of lemon-lime, wet stone, makrut lime leaves and blossom. A touch of mandarin, too, with freshly cut Granny Smith apple. The acidity is thirst-quenching, there’s a fine line of texture, and it’s appealing for its savouriness, and more besides. I liked it so much that I poured a big glass to drink and decided the working day had finished on a high. – Jane Faulkner, Halliday's Top 100 wines of 2026