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If you're a Riesling lover, this mixed pack is your dream come true. From the legendary Grosset Polish Hill to the ultra-rare Margret Pooley Riesling from Tasmania, each bottle showcases Australia's finest expressions of this noble grape.
It's a Riesling journey through the lens of six iconic producers — perfect for your cellar or immediate indulgence.
- 2025 Grosset Polish Hill Riesling
- 2023 Loosen Barry Wolta Wolta Riesling
- 2025 Crawford River Riesling
- 2024 Pooley Margaret Pooley Tribute Riesling
- 2025 Frankland Estate Isolation Ridge Riesling
- 2025 Helm Premium Riesling
2025 Grosset Polish Hill Riesling
Jeffrey Grosset’s Polish Hill is not just a Clare Valley icon - it’s the benchmark against which Australian Riesling is measured. Sourced from his biodynamically farmed “hard rock” vineyard in Clare, where silt and shale sit over a bed of ancient blue slate, the vines naturally struggle, yielding tiny berries of remarkable intensity. The result, year after year, is one of the country’s most profound white wines.
The 2025 release is already being spoken of as one of Grosset’s finest. A cool, slow-ripening season has given pristine fruit, with piercing citrus purity wrapped around a mineral, slate-driven core. Lime juice, lemon blossom, green apple and white flowers glide across a palate that feels both delicate and commanding, finishing long and mouthwatering with that signature chalky line. There’s clarity and restraint in its youth, but also an underlying power that will see it evolve beautifully for decades.
Critics have been effusive: Huon Hooke lauds its "great intensity," Winsor Dobbin calls it "Australia’s best - and much sought-after - dry riesling," while Campbell Mattinson has suggested it's a "superb release" of the great Polish Hill Riesling.
For us, Polish Hill is as close as Australian Riesling gets to a yardstick. Every release adds to the legacy, and 2025 feels destined to be remembered as one of the greats. Drink now for its intensity and freshness, or cellar 20 years to watch one of Australia’s greatest wines reveal its full self.
"Get your orders in now. The 2025 vintage of Grosset Polish Hill Riesling maintains its place as Australia's best - and much sought-after - dry riesling."
- Winsor Dobbin
2023 Loosen Barry Wolta Wolta Riesling
This collaboration started with a "dangerous friendship" forged at the London Wine Fair in 1995, and a friendly insult. The premise was simple: Erni Loosen told the Barry family that, while good, Clare Valley Riesling was "not that interesting." He felt the region had backed itself into a corner of making linear, "squeaky clean" wines and challenged them to find more complexity.
The answer lay in the past. Inspired by a winemaking text from 1807 and a fresh-tasting dry German Riesling from 1947, Erni convinced the Barrys to look backward to move forward. The secret? Time.
Sourced from the historic Wolta Wolta block (planted on 900-million-year-old slate), the fruit for the 2023 was left to hang on the vine until late March to build flavour ripeness rather than just acid. It was then wild-fermented in a 3,000L German oak fuder and left on gross lees for a staggering 24 months with no bâtonnage.
Sam Barry calls 2023 "the coolest vintage since the legendary 2002." It is a vintage defined by hang-time, resulting in a wine that is immediately charming but built for the long haul.
This is the antithesis of the "lime and petrol" stereotype. It is textural and exotic, layering kaffir lime and lemongrass over deeper notes of crème brûlée, apricot kernel and struck match. Thanks to the "Benjamin Button" effect of long lees ageing, it is incredibly fresh yet undeniably complex.
96 points
"Crackling minerality, stony notes, savoury. Shit yeah! This has it all. In youth, the pucker and chew something else, otherworldly compared to rank and file riesling. Leafy herbal notes, blackcurrant, more to add to the shopping cart of descriptors. It’s all about energy and vibrancy and deliciousness. In the slot."
- Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)
96 points
"Where classic Clare riesling is fine detail viewed in tight focus, this is a deep and dazzling image projected through a kaleidoscope. Its “otherness” is aromatically evident. Mango skin, lemongrass, preserved lemon, tangy margarita rims and a smidge of sourdough starter."
- Nick Ryan (The Australian)
2025 Crawford River Riesling
Crawford River is the absolute benchmark for Australian Riesling, and Belinda Thomson is crafting some of the most compelling whites in the country right now. The 2025 season threw some serious challenges her way down in Henty, with a brutal dry winter and spring frosts that hammered the yields. The silver lining with such a tiny crop is the sheer concentration of the fruit that survived - it is pristine, dense, and packed with flavor.
Sourced from the original 1970s vines, this release is all about power and a deep mineral core. It skips the simple citrus tropes, opening instead with a grounded mix of orange blossom, wet stone, and a distinct line of Kaffir lime.
There is real weight and generosity here, but a pithy texture and a bit of mealy complexity from time on lees keep it tracking beautifully across the palate. It has the structural stuffing to cellar for a decade or more, but if you are opening one tonight, just give it some air in the glass to let it unwind. We reckon this is right on par with their best releases yet.
97 points
"A multifaceted bouquet of pure lemon zest, orange blossom, jasmine and wet stone. Concentrated, gently textured and very energetic on the palate, culminating in a long, mouth-watering finish."
- Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)
2024 Pooley Margaret Pooley Tribute Riesling
The Margaret Pooley Tribute is a reserve bottling that only makes an appearance when the season is truly exceptional. Sourced from the original 1985 Riesling plantings, this is Anna Pooley’s most concentrated and explosive expression of the variety. It spent five months on lees in old French oak puncheons, a move that builds glorious texture and serious structure.
The 2024 vintage is in absolute peak form, leading with mineral-edged aromas of struck match, lime zest, and crushed stone. While it’s loaded with vibrant citrus and apple blossom, there is a complex, savoury layer beneath - think beeswax, clover, and a distinct oyster shell salinity. It’s the shape of the wine that really impresses; it glides along a sleek, saline rail with electric acidity and a flinty, mouth-watering snap on the finish.
Enthusiasts should jump on this release. It possesses a growing power and a tightly wound structure that promises a long, golden-hued evolution in the cellar. It is a benchmark Tasmanian Riesling that sits a cut above, offering both immediate racy energy and immense cellaring potential.
98 points
"Another excellent release that will hold its own in any benchmark riesling tasting... Will benefit from some time in the bottle, albeit delicious now. Drink or hold."
- Ryan Montgomery (James Suckling)
97 points
"It's the shape that grabs me. Sleek and marble smooth with a light sapidity to the acidity, a saline rail upon which that lovely fruit glides without any friction, sailing long, elegant and true. It's wonderful drinking."
- Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)
2025 Frankland Estate Isolation Ridge Riesling
Frankland Estate’s Isolation Ridge Riesling is widely regarded as one of Australia’s absolute benchmarks for the variety, grown on the remote, ironstone soils of their organically certified estate.
The family approach this with a holistic focus on viticulture, aiming to capture the sheer power of the site rather than stripping it back. It is a highly intense, singular white that swaps the simple, neutral traits of everyday commercial Riesling for incredible structural depth and massive cellaring potential.
The 2025 growing season produced a beautifully concentrated, ripe crop that dialled up the wine’s fruit purity and aromatic volume. In the winery, the team worked meticulously to respect the grape’s natural phenolics, allowing the juice to build a fine, chalky texture that perfectly frames the fruit. They avoided any heavy-handed intervention, keeping the winemaking completely transparent to let the ironstone minerality and electric natural acid run at maximum volume.
The nose is incredibly intense and exotic, bursting with lime sherbet, candied cumquat, lemongrass, and a unique, sweet-smelling musk-stick floral perfume. The palate is a total powerhouse of crunch and energy, loaded with crisp green apple, white nectarine, and a distinct chalky, stony grip. A mouth-wateringly juicy, vibrant wave of acidity sweeps through the finish.
This is an iconic, deeply complex Riesling and unlike any other in Australia.
96 points
"Concentration-plus! Organically grown Isolation Ridge vineyard in the super cool Great Southern consistently produces one of the more concentrated and intense Rieslings in the country. The ’25 offers another superlative example."
- Jeni Port (Wine Pilot)
2025 Helm Premium Riesling
Ken Helm has spent most of his life proving just how good Riesling can be in the Canberra District, and his Premium bottling is the clearest expression of that vision. The fruit comes from old vines in Murrumbateman – vineyards Ken has worked with for decades – and the style is all about purity and precision.
Winemaking here is deliberately simple. The grapes are hand-picked and fermented cool in stainless steel, with nothing added to distract from what the vineyard gives. 2025 was a strong season, the kind of year that allowed slow ripening and plenty of flavour development while keeping natural acidity in check.
The result is a Riesling that’s bright and lively now but will quietly build complexity as it ages, just like so many Helm wines before it. It’s a bottle that speaks as much to Ken’s legacy as it does to the season – proof of why he’s long been regarded as one of Australia’s great champions of Riesling.
96 points
"This is wow factor stuff... Striking wine. Sensational."
- Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)
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