Seppelt Drumborg Riesling 2025

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Ray Jordan - Winepilot

A classic example of the minerally, spicy and lemony influences from this very southern, marginal vineyard. Incredibly intense and powerful with a linear, focused palate. Crunchy and vibrant with a zingy, crisp acidity. Notes of kaffir lime and lemongrass add an exotic character.

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Philip Rich - Halliday Wine Companion

A brilliant green gold. An essay in purity with its bouquet of makrut lime, lemon blossom, red apple and flint. The palate is dry, chalky textured, impeccably balanced and very long. A gorgeous wine that, while mouth-watering and delicious now, will only continue to blossom and become more complex over the next 10–15 years.

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Jeni Port - Winepilot

This little, super cool pocket of vines in South-West Victoria is proving a godsend as our climate becomes warmer and drier. It laps up warm, dry, sunny vintages like 2025 to reveal a full-on varietal masterclass. Vibrant scents of crab apple, apple blossom, Granny Smith apple, citrus and exotic spice. Purity and elegance are the bywords here as the palate offers up lively apple and citrus underpinned by an exotic spectrum of ginger spice and kaffir lime herbal flavours. Stays bright and tangy as it leads the drinker into a gentle texture and then goes long. Fabulous.

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Brendan Black - Winepilot

For those in the know, Drumborg elicits images of frosty, foggy mornings in one of Australia’s coldest subregions, and it’s the ideal spot for creating crisp, mouth-watering Riesling. There’s so much going on aromatically as soon as the wine is poured: peach, lemon, chalk, a touch of melon and some delightful lime and blossom; there’s also a salty note which is then carried through to the palate, enhancing the mouth-watering aspects. The palate is superb – silky and energetic – with a bracing finish. It’s still a young thing so drink it now or wait a few years and see it flourish.

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Angus Hughson - Winepilot

There is pinpoint precision in this 2025 Drumborg Riesling with chalk and lime leaf aromas enhanced by touches of musk and spice. Piercing acidity is well matched to a significant volume of flavour, still tightly bound while a touch of sweetness is well balanced with the palate impressively holding shape through to a strong yet silky finish.