Briar Ridge Dairy Hill Semillon 2026
AU$50, 11.9% alcohol, screwcap, Hunter Valley.
This is a pure, fruit-driven semillon with lifted aromatics and a long, textural palate. It tastes of grapefruit, lemon, wax and red apples, the palate impressing with its length but also giving you something to hold onto as it passes through your mouth. It’s a classic “now or later” style, with a bit of extra presence.
93+ points – Campbell Mattinson
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
