Jim Barry The Florita Riesling / 2025 / 375mL

Description:

The Jim Barry The Florita Riesling 2025 is a dry, tightly wound Watervale Riesling from the Clare Valley, and this 375mL bottle puts a serious wine into a format built for two glasses rather than a long night. It is water-white, taut and citrus-driven, the kind of Riesling that rewards a cold glass and a plate of food on a weeknight.

Lime juice and lemon pith lead the aromatics, with white blossom, a touch of lemongrass and the chalky, wet-stone lift that Watervale fruit brings. The palate is pure and linear, more about drive than weight, with grapefruit and a faint marmalade richness through the middle.

Acidity is the backbone here, crisp without ever turning hard, and it carries a fine, powdery grip to a long, dry, mineral finish. The Florita vineyard sits on limestone at Watervale, replanted to Riesling in 1962, and that chalky signature runs right through the 2025.

The half bottle suits solo dinners, lunch for two, or a picnic where you want something better than a glass by the carton — oysters, sashimi, Vietnamese chicken salad, steamed snapper with ginger and shallot, or a wedge of goat's cheese with green apple.

Jim Barry The Florita Riesling 2025 is drinking well now for its snap and energy, and Florita has the structure to hold and build toasty complexity for twenty years.