The Vintage Journal Barossa Guide 2025

Grant Burge Wines Thorn Riesling 2024

G 95

Pale colour. Intense lime, lemon aromas with hints of tonic water. Fresh minerally wine with lovely pure lemon flavours fine slinky textures and fresh long indelible acidity. Minerally and textural with a hint of sweetness at the finish. Drink now–2030 mesh Eden Valley Riesling 2024 G 95 Pale clear. Bright and focused pure lemon, grapefruit and bath salts. Linear fresh wine with pure lemon, slatey flavours and a faint herb note. Purity, poise and balance, finishing dry. A promising future. Drink 2027– 2040

Pewsey Vale Vineyard 1961 Block Riesling 2024

G 95

Pale colour. Aromatically elegant, tonic water, lemon, wet stone and herbal garden note. Lovely fruit concentration with perfectly pitched acidity, lemon curd, grapefruit and touch tonic water on chalky finish. A beautifully tactile wine with a long and promising future. Drink 2027– 2042 Pewsey Vale Vineyard The Contours Riesling 2017 G 95 Pale colour with lemon edge. Fresh complex, advanced oil skin, white floral, verbena, toasty mandarin and herbgarden notes. Elegant and beautifully concentrated, lemon pith, mandarin and hint marzipan notes. Integrated fresh acidity and fine bittersweet textures, finishes long with attractive developed lanolin flavour. Drink now–soon. Sons of Eden Cirrus Single Vineyard Riesling 2022 G 95 Pale colour. Fragrant lemon curd, lifted bath salts, developed oil skin notes and camomile. Beautifully concentrated wine, ample lemon- lime freshness, grapefruit and touch of lanolin. Plenty of vinosity and freshness carried by a fine loose-knit chalky texture and superb length. Drink 2027–2040 Eden Hall Springton Riesling 2024 G 94 A lemon straw hue here, this is a beautifully fragrant Riesling with lime blossoms, florals and gentle hints of peach skins. Construction is immaculate, as is the balance. There is a slight note of a chalky/ talc backing. Fine acidity runs the length with a dry, clean finish. Good length. This is a really attractive Riesling. Drink now–2036

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