May 13, 2016

PEWSEY VALE Dry Riesling 2015

(Eden Valley, Australia) $14.99

The best < $15 wine for summer? Here’s a leading contender–Pewsey Vale’s dry (and they mean bone dry) riesling from Australia’s Eden Valley. You know how great gin has a botanical hit? Well, this riesling has it too. Riesling is still one of the best “untold stories” of Oz, because Australian riesling is like no other riesling in the world. Sleek, bright and tight, it tastes like someone really did get liquid from a stone.

90 points

Available at K & L

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