Duff Wines SFAR 2026
AU$35, 12.9% alcohol, screwcap, Hunter Valley.
This is a Hunter Valley blend of semillon, fiano, albarino and riesling, all co-fermented (wild) in oak.
Great stuff. As fascinating as it is delicious. It’s direct, juicy, fruity and flavoursome, with a wild array of pulpy citrus, stonefruit and apple characters on display, all topped by notes of sea-spray and mace. It’s inviting and daring at once. It’s a gorgeous white wine.
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.
