First Ridge Uova Bella Fiano Vermentino 2025

20 Feb

First Ridge Uova Bella Fiano Vermentino 2025
$45, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Mudgee.

This wine was fermented (wild) and matured in a ceramic egg. It’s a great way to treat a wine – any wine, pretty much – and this method has come up trumps here. It’s fruit-driven at heart but then it has also slate, tonic, crushed white flower and woodsy spice notes whispered throughout. It’s dry, generous and measured at once, with an extra burst of citrus rind and more floral notes bursting through the finish. Yes please. This is very good. 93 points.

First RidgeMudgee

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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