Seppelt planted its Drumborg site in 1964 to grow premium quality, cool climate fruit. A vineyard that experiences challenging weather conditions, Drumborg does not deliver every year, but when it does, the results are outstanding. A generous and refined Riesling, exhibiting purity of style, a lean, elegant structure and outstanding length. The bright lime and grapefruit flavours combine with a mineral acid backbone to create a wine of great elegance that is irresistible upon release, destined to add depths of flavour as it evolves.

Douglas Seabrook was the longest serving chairman of judges at the Royal Melbourne Wine Show, he adjudicated over the most memorable vintages for thirty years and held a passion for great Riesling. From a single superb site at Springton in the Adelaide Hills, an exceptional sixty year old vineyard which lies in a secluded valley and ripens much later than most other sites on the surrounding hills. It yields fruit of marvelous minerality, pristine of citrus fruit and elegant of spice, offering superlative finesse as the wine continues to evolve and become more complex with age.

The Schild Estate vineyards are spread out over several unique mesoclimes and soils around Lyndoch and across the southern districts of Barossa Valley. Ed Schild purchased Tweedies Gully vineyard in 1977, noting that the prime location with its westerly aspect, high altitude and sandy loam soils, would be perfect for growing extra fine Riesling. Schild encapsulates the generous style that is purely Barossa. Good acidity with lean, clean characteristics, exhibiting the tight structure and profound expression of fruit which have brought Schild so much renown.

Mamre Brook remain one of Australia's most dearly loved family of wines. Saltram draws Riesling from its vineyard just next to the cellar door, as well as from good growers throughout the more eminent viticultural precincts of Barossa Valley. Batches from highly specialized and distinguished Riesling sites atop the cooler aspects of Eden Valley are happily wedded to parcels gathered from the warmer climes across the valley floor. A well rounded Riesling wine of lovely floral and citrus characters, gentle structure and racy natural acidity.

Sacred Hill is an ode to a hermit made famous in Riverina folklore. Like his eponymous wine, he kept a low profile but was highly revered by all who knew him. For those who may be partial to a juicy wine with a measure of luscious grapey sweetness, Sacred Hill will be the first choice. Topical Gewurztraminer rose petal characters are in full bloom, musk aromatics and ripe lychee fruit flavours are finely nestled within a soft, aromatic palate. Enjoy alongside spiced seafood and piquant Thai.

Rosemount Estate is enjoyed throughout the world, best known for its delicious white wines and distinctive Diamond Label. By blending components of the spicey Traminer with harvests of good Riesling, the Rosemount team have fashioned a richly flavoured and stylish young wine, suitably attired in a funky label that tells you it's Rounded & Zesty. This refreshing blend of fruits mates beautifuly with boldly flavoured recipes or ripe cheese. The essential easy drinking, fruit forward style for which Rosemount has became famous.

The pick of Watervale fruit from a very special, hand selected site amongst the idyllic, rolling pastorals of Valley Clare. An intensely fragrant blend of freshly squeezed tahitian lime and blossom frangiapan over a subtle hint of wet stones, youthful and bright, fresh lime intense on the palate. A term of extended lees contact and four months stirring battonage introduces complexity, textural richness, crisp and dry, a beautiful line of grapefruit acidity to the finish.

Valley Clare is renowned for the gentle nature and refinement of its Riesling, generous yet elegant, what differentiates it from other regions are the dry, hot summer days and cool, crisp nights which contribute to the intensity of flavour. Hand crafted from grapes grown to the elevated terroirs on Smyth and St Clare vineyards, picked off dry grown vines planted to rich red loam overlays deep limestone, a winsome Riesling style of lifted florals heralding an enriched palate of citrus, honey and lime followed by crisp granny apple acid on the finish.

From the most exquisite parcels of estate grown Riesling, picked off the auspicious Reilly vines, planted to rich red loam over deep limestone soils of St Clare Vineyard at Watervale. Fruit is pressed within two hours of picking and nothing but the purest, first free run juices are sent to fermenters. Its expansive floral bouquet and citrus blossom nose give way to a painters palette of delicate pastoral flavours, the crisp juicyness of ripe apple and zest of lime, balanced by the renowned Watervale floral softness and gentle, creamy acidity.

What fine Riesling Clare Valley does make, internationally recognized for wines of immaculate fruit character and delicate pastoral charm. Reillys manage many of Clare Valley's most exquisite vineyards, they bring a range of the most satisfying and approachable wines to enthusiasts with every vintage. Superior parcels of Riesling, picked off the prestigious Smyth and St Clare vineyards, planted to propitiously elevated aspects in the premier viticultural precinct of Watervale, are fashioned into a lifted floral wine with crunchy green apple citrus flavours, summer blossoms and winsome honeysuckle notes.

An exciting cépage which may vary slightly from year to year, mostly a Shiraz wine sourced off younger Heathcote plantings, a tenth of Mourverdre and small percentage of Riesling. Mourverdre contributes plummy fruit to the nose, juciness and flesh to the palate. Riesling adds an aromatic lift within a slightly spiced floral perfume. An engagingly aromatic, satisfyingly proportioned and generously flavoured wine, to match with rare breast of duck dressed in rhubarb or charred scotch filet under mushroom jus.

Prophet's Rock are a member of Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand, the aim is to make the most articulate Central Otago wines in the most natural way, from fruit grown to an environmentally balanced vineyard. There's a single hectare of Riesling at Rocky Point vineyard, planted to opportune schist rock soils, it receives a lot of attention from the devout vineyard team. Yields are extremely low, averaging only 300 cases per vintage. A wild yeast ferment in small vessels and a term of age on sedimentery lees makes a structured Riesling style of vibrant floral citrus over strong underlying minerality.

Pressing Matters attenuate their Riesling with supple variations around the time of picking, vinification temperatures and completion of ferments. Here's the perfect level of sweetness to titillate and excite the most discerning enthusiast. Just nine grams residual sugar are enough to enhance the palate with richness and complexity, add ripeness to the flesh and perfumes to the bouquet of juicy fruit. Led by its lovely floral nose, the supple touch of nectar softens the purse of lime lemon, making R9 the perfect partner to seafood, oven baked recipes or succulent white meats.

A mix of Riesling clones, D2V3 and 198GM, F8V13 and 239GM are planted on their own rootstock at a density of 5000 vines per hectare. Medium sweet dry at 69 grams residual sugar, its bouquet of florals and honeysuckle, oranges and lime precedes a succulent palate in perfect balance, candied apple flavours and white peach are balanced by divine minerality. Pressing Matters are also significantly lower in alcohol than most Australian Rieslings, the intense fruit flavours are balanced by an amazing natural acidity. The Riesling of choice to accompany crayfish or delicately sauced marron.

Pressing Matters are inspired by the Mosel style, fashioned to reflect and optimize the outstanding qualities of which Tasmanian Rieslings are capable. Greg Melick has been an avid consumer of the world's finest wines for decades, his own cellar is filled with first growths and he has spent many years touring the world's great vineyards. He is also a wine judge with twenty years national and international experience. Pressing Matters R139 is the lusciously sweet style of late picked Riesling, finished to 139 grams residual sugar, ideal for full flavoured consomme or the richest desserts.

Greg Melick is Tasmania's most senior barrister, he carries rank in the Australian Reserves and nurtures a penchant for fine Burgundy. A consuming desire to make his own wine led him to a northeasterly slope along Tasmania's Coal River, fourteen remarkable hectares of well drained viticulture which had previously been used for grazing. Yields are kept very low and Melick's Rieslings are finished at four different levels of residual sugar, R0 being bone dry, simply superb for haute cuisine, very much in the timeless styling defined by the savoury classics of Alsace and Mosel.

There are two places of the most profound provenance along Coal River Valley called Belmont and Richmond, just a short drive northeast of Hobart. Both are a part of the early Australian experience, places of great historical import, sites that were selected during first settlement on the basis of their fertile endowments and promise of pastoral opulence. The vineyards Cooinda Vale and Butchers Hill were trained to yield a restricted harvest of the most exclusive Tasmania Riesling. Its prominent nose of indulgent perfumes, white jasmines, lemon zest and peach, a mesmerisingly mandarin palate, moreish and mineral.

A fully engaging Riesling with alluring perfumes and elegant structure, from sites in the Pipers Brook and Tamar Valley of northeast Tasmania, an inspiring interpretation of the steely, complex wines of Alsace. The vineyards are vertically integrated through a rigorous regimen of site selection, viticultural development and management. This style of Riesling bridges the gap between the traditional Aussie which proffers citrus, chalkiness and calico, as opposed to their French counterparts which exude floral scents and offer refined, fruity palate structures.

Henry Pike settled in the Adelaide Hills circa 1886, founding a brewery which made the finest beer and tonic ales in the colony. Every bottle was labelled with the English pike, a tradition which endures into the 21st century. Henry's great grandson, Edgar Walter Pike, was an established Clare Valley grower and vineyard manager who worked for a large proprietary wine company. His sons followed father's footsteps, today Andrew is one of the leading viticulturalists in Valley Clare and Neil is one of the region's most eminent winemakers.

A pure expression of Riesling and an embodiement of the uniqueness at Polish Hill River, Merle is crafted by a Riesling specialist after collation of the finest fruit from each vintage. Named for the estate's matriarch Merle Pike, she knew that she was going to have her own label and was quietly chuffed about it. An intense and pure Riesling wine with refined citrus characters over a slatey mineral palate, successive vintages of Merle have been selected for service in Qantas First Class.

Pewsey Vale once succumbed to the fate of so many of Australia's great, foundation vineyards, falling into disuse as a result of severe economic hardship. The site's potential was rediscovered at a time when only the history books recorded any existence of the original plantings. The long ripening periods at such altitudes encourage rich flavour profiles, known today as classic Pewsey Vale. The winemaking is simple and natural, hand picked grapes are whole bunch pressed directly to older oak barrels for ferment by indigenous yeasts.

Inspired by elder bottles of Pewsey Vale Riesling, Yalumba resolved to make an early harvest wine with lower alcohol, a fine balance of natural acids and idyllic levels of residual sugar. Prima is made from grapes picked three to four weeks before the rest of the vineyard. Chosen for their fine citrus flavours, grapes are carefully selected when their natural sugar levels are near 10° Baume. The wine is finished to a semi dry style which retains some of the fruit in balance with chalky mineral acidity, exhibiting purity of style, as it evoves layers of toastyness and spice.

The quality of fruit from Pewsey Vale Vineyard, higher up the contours of Eden Valley, is a reflection of altitude and low fertility, grey, sandy loam soils which prolong ripening late into the cool autumn. This longer season develops unique flavour profiles which are classic Pewsey Vale. Contours is Pewsey Vale's flagship, held back for five years under the estate cellars. The grapes themselves are picked from the oldest vines, established to contoured rows in 1962. This exceptional wine already shows signs of bottle development immediately upon release.

The Pewsey Vale property was first planted to Riesling by Joseph Gilbert in 1847. The site was later purchased by well known grazier Geoff Angas Parsons, who in 1961 invited his friend Wyndham Hill Smith to jointly develop the historic vineyard. They believed the site could produce delicate Rieslings in the Germanic style. High in the Eden Valley's low fertility, grey and sandy loam soils, a prolonged ripening late into the cool autumn season develops recognizably consistent flavour profiles, today known as classic Pewsey Vale.

The tall ship Evening Star docked at Port Phillip harbour in February 1856 carrying the Pettavel family, destined for the expanding vineyards of Geelong. Experienced growers recruited in Switzerland were central to the expansion of viticulture and winemaking throughout the Bellarine Peninsula. The Evening Star range is focused on articulating the vibrant Geelong fruit characters, a course of cool ferments serves to retain the lifted elegant, floral aromas and crisp citrus, apple pear flavours, which linger on a fine, mineral acid texture.

Peter Lehmann is an international sensation at Riesling, having been declared Best Riesling in the World no fewer than five times at the London International. Named for Andrew Wigan who has been the maker of every Riesling bottled under the Peter Lehmann label since inaugural vintage.

Wigan affords enthusiasts a rare opportunity to experience the delights of a classic and mature Riesling wine. Eden Valley is home to Australia's greatest Riesling, first planted to the shallow, rocky soils of the higher Barossa ranges in the early 1850s. Time has revealed this place to be a natural home for Riesling, which many winemakers agree is the noblest white varietal. The mature Eden Valley vineyards produce wines with a unique sense of place. Each year Peter Lehmann classifies the very best, to hold back for extended ageing.

Time has shown the Eden Valley to be a natural home for Riesling, which to quote Peter Lehmann, is the noblest white wine variety. Lehmann's Eden Valley editions can boast the unique distinction of winning Best Riesling in the World Trophy at the prestigious London International on no fewer than five occasions, more than any winemaker in the world. Floral and delicately perfumed, fleshed by a hint of stonefruit and driven by citrus spice, the perfect accompaniment to all styles of seafood and white meats.