Briar Ridge Limited Release Viognier 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Briar Ridge Limited Release Viognier 2024.

Briar Ridge Limited Release Viognier 2024
$40, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Wrattonbully.

There’s a touch of oak in play here and it helps to give the wine a sense of presence, not to mention an extra hit of flavour. This is a bold white wine – in a good way – with powerful flavours of stonefruit, honeysuckle, vanilla bean and sweet/dried herb flavours pushing confidently throughout. You could drink this anywhere, and with anything, and it would stand tall. It’s very good. 93 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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