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

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 a respected 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 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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