Briar Ridge Limited Release BDX 2024
AU$40, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Wrattonbully.
This is leafy and juicy and well sustained. It tastes of tobacco leaves soaked in blackcurrant, licorice, cedar, ozone and bay leaves, with gum leaf notes present as well. It’s sinewy through the finish but the juiciness of the fruit continues to push on through. This is a medium-bodied red that also looks set to cellar well.
92+ 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.
