Briar Ridge Dairy Hill Semillon 2013

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Briar Ridge Dairy Hill Semillon.

Briar Ridge Dairy Hill Semillon 2013
$127, 11% alcohol, screwcap, Hunter Valley.

Twist the top on this museum release and the aromas fill the room. This is a scented, seductive semillon if ever there was one. Lemon, slate, wax, lemongrass and toast characters come edged with quince. It’s as exotic as it is beautiful. Both the texture and the power here are quite something, not to mention the complexity. Twelve years from vintage and this wine is singing. 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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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