Wine shows covered by us in 2025 assessed 1614 Australian Riesling exhibits across 729 individual labels.
Eden Valley stood out as the best performing region. Although its four examples numbered fewer than the six from Clare Valley in our Top 20, the Barossa satellite accounted for this year’s top Riesling and boasted a higher overall average and better consistency than its northern competitor.
Unusually, Tasmania produced just one of this year’s top 20 rieslings. This was despite the island state enjoying similar growing season conditions to South Australia and a consecutive year of strong yields overall. Moreover, Riesling is the state’s fifth biggest grape by crush. That compares with its national ranking of just thirteenth by crush.
The top 20 Australian rieslings shown last year are listed below. The Top 10 can be found at https://mattsays.substack.com
