What a wine - just explodes from the glass with fragrant florals and wafts of intense citrus and peach. Freshly squeezed orange and grapefruit, intermingled with white flowers and jasmine. A hint of honey in there as well, but the wine is dry and fresh and utterly refreshing. One of Australia's best.

Australia’s wine scene is booming - there’s little doubt on that front - and it sometimes seems as though the majority of wineries we hear about are plucky start-ups, managed by young, ambitious newcomers on the scene. How easy it can be and how wrong it is to overlook those older, wiser, more established wineries who have paved the way for this new generation of vintners. Crawford River is a perfect example; set up in 1975 by John and Cathy Thomson on their family’s sheep farm in western Victoria, it set out to see just how good wine could be when made in this corner of Australia. The results were consistently impressive, with their Riesling quickly becoming iconic, and is now widely regarded as Australia's best. The rest of the stable of wines more than keeps up with this reputation. This family winery is still undoubtedly a force to be reckoned with, and more than capable of teaching these new faces on the scene a thing or two!