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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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 prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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