Briar Ridge Semillon Sauvignon Blanc Fumé 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Briar Ridge Semillon Sauvignon Blanc Fumé 2025.

Briar Ridge Semillon Sauvignon Blanc Fumé 2025
AU$25, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Hunter Valley/Orange.

This is crisp, refreshing and well-flavoured and, as a result, it’s drinking well right now. This impression is aided by the fact that there’s also a subtle textural element, which means that it both tastes and feels good. It would be worth buying on these grounds alone, but this wine has the line and the length to age well too, particularly over the next three or four years. In short, this is a very easy wine to recommend. 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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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