- Winery: Sisu Wines
- Wine Region: Coal River Valley, Tasmania
- Variety: Riesling
- Vintage: 2025
- Price: $38
- Find it: from the winery direct
- Alcohol content: 13%
- You’ll like this if: You love a Chardonnay with the best of both worlds
- Body: Medium
- Mouthfeel: Crisp
- Taste: Mineral, elegant, persistent
- Flavours: Lemon, floral, wet stone
- Enjoy it with: Seafood
- Food pairings: Oysters, ceviche, sashimi
Wine review: Sisu Riesling 2025
If the Sisu Chardonnay was a confident debut, the Riesling is proof that this Coal River Valley producer has serious range. I don’t drink a lot of Riesling, but when I drink one like this, I’m reminded that I should enjoy more of it! Riesling is one of those grapes that really thrives in cool climates, and Tasmania’s Coal River Valley delivers exactly the kind of conditions it loves. The Sisu Riesling 2025 is a wine of real precision. Elegant, pure, and made with obvious care.
On the nose, you get green apple, lemon, and floral blossom. The palate is fresh and precise, with crisp citrus acidity and a subtle texture from skin contact that gives it a little more presence than your average Riesling. It has a lovely minerality, almost like wet stone, and a slight chalkiness that is nice and plush. The finish is long, dry, and mineral, with real lift and persistence. It’s drinking beautifully now, but you could also cellar it. If you’re a Riesling fan, this one deserves a spot on your radar.
About Sisu Wines
Sisu is a young winery with a clear sense of purpose. Drawn to the Coal River Valley for its cool climate and nutrient-rich soils, vigneron Jake found a region that matched his vision for bright, expressive, finely structured wines. The vineyard covers 25 hectares within a much larger 95-hectare farm, and that extra space is intentional: this is a place where nature is very much part of the plan. Farming is holistic, intervention is minimal, and the focus is always on letting the fruit speak for itself.
What really sets Sisu apart, though, is its commitment to the land beyond the vineyard rows. A flock of 220 sheep roam the property, naturally mowing the grass, reducing tractor use, and feeding the soil with organic matter. The winery is certified sustainable, and as part of a broader rewilding mission, they’ve partnered with Landcare Tasmania to plant 1,300 native stems across the property, including prickly box, white gum, black wattle, and she-oaks. They also work with Land for Wildlife to better understand and support the species already calling the farm home. It’s a genuinely exciting approach to winemaking: good for the wines, and good for the ecosystem around them.
Learn more about this wine on their website.
Note: This wine was sent as a sample. I was under no obligation to post about it.