Oria-Riff Old Vine Semillon Dry White 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Oria-Riff Old Vine Semillon Dry White 2024.

Oria-Riff Old Vine Semillon Dry White 2024
$40, 11.3% alcohol, DIAM cork, McLaren Vale.

This is an interesting drink. More than interesting. It’s waxy, salty, lemony, pushed with stonefruit flavours and, to boot, textural at every step. It’s charismatic. It’s low in alcohol, and feels fresh and (almost) racy as a result, but then its bees-wax and fragrant herb and grape skin characters help to make it feel bodied and (almost) plush. If you called this wine captivating you wouldn’t be far wrong. Forget scores. This is a brilliant drink. 93 points.

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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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