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

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 an independent 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, who is 100% independent, 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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