Dry white

Clare Valley Riesling

Robe — Pale green-gold, ageing to deep gold

  • lime
  • lemon
  • green apple
  • jasmine
  • toast with age
Palate
Bone-dry, steely and intense, piercing lime acidity
Ageing
10–20 years
Serving
9–11 °C

The Clare Valley makes the benchmark Australian Riesling — and one of the great dry Rieslings of the world. Despite its warm-country reputation, cold nights at altitude and cool cellars give a wine of piercing, bone-dry intensity, all lime and green apple, that ages for twenty years into toast and honey while keeping its citrus core.

Sealed under screwcap since the region led that revolution, Clare Riesling is pure, precise and unmistakable. Alongside neighbouring Eden Valley, it is the undisputed home of fine dry Riesling in the southern hemisphere.

The blend

A typical modern composition

Where it is made

Producers

A few estates working in this style today — a sample, not a ranking

Through time

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