Dr. Edge

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Dr. Edge is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.
Only the best of Australia’s best wineries are ranked as a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.

Peter Dredge’s wines plunge you into the purest of cold streams before reaching in via textures and flavours to help you out. They are lithe, racy wines that feel as though they have a fitness. The reputation of Dr. Edge’s wines – sourced from various sites around the cool island state of Tasmania in the most southern reaches of Australia – is built around distinctive Riesling, scintillating Chardonnay and forever-interesting Pinot Noir. Dr Edge also produces sparkling wine of distinction. There’s a restless, creative intelligence applied to the wines of Dr. Edge. They are interesting, pure, characterful and more, but more than anything they are compelling. As a range, both historically and presently, the Dr Edge wines rest easily among Australia’s Best Wineries.

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There have been 45 reviews of Dr Edge wines reviewed on The Winefront site, including notes from a full retrospective tasting.

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The Dr. Edge tag keeps you up-to-date with any Dr Edge reviews added to this site, though Dr. Edge sparkling wine reviews are specific to the This Sparkling Life section.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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