Briar Ridge Dairy Hill Semillon 2025
$45, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Hunter Valley.
Cellar this. It’s a ripper. The flavours here are clean, bright, pure and persistent. Indeed tasting this wine now is like looking over a perfectly tailored suit. Every stitch is precise, every button neat and done up, every line elegant. It tastes of citrus and brine but it’s the shape, form, length and harmony that matter – all of which are in top shape. 94 points.
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.
