Briar Ridge Ampelus Argilla Syrah Tempranillo 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Briar Ridge Ampelus Argilla Syrah Tempranillo 2024

Briar Ridge Ampelus Argilla Syrah Tempranillo 2024
$50, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Hunter Valley.

This wine leans gently into the ‘syrah’ style, in that it adds spice and peanut notes to the general flow of black cherry and plum-like flavour. It delivers good fruit, but it’s also in touch with its more savoury side, let’s say, and tempranillo helps contribute to both sides of this theme, with cola and twiggy herb characters added to the show. It’s an interesting wine, and a lovely drink. Grainy tannin gives the wine an earthen, textural, toasty aspect. In short, the quality of this wine is up there. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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