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

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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