Briar Ridge Limited Release BDX 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Briar Ridge BDX 2023.

Briar Ridge Limited Release BDX 2023
$40, 13.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Wrattonbully.

This wine is driven by choc-mint, boysenberry, plum and red cherry flavours. It’s not dense or especially deep, but it’s both well powered and controlled, and it persists well through the finish too. It’s a structural wine, built to improve as it matures. The combination of herb, fruit and tobacco-like notes here will work beautifully once they’ve had more time to evolve. 92+ 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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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