Mr Riggs Mr Brightside Picpoul 2025
AU$25, 11% alcohol, screwcap, Fleurieu Peninsula.
Highly aromatic and delicious to boot. This does the trick very nicely, thank you very much. Flavours of apple, brine, tonic water, pear and blackcurrant bud are served with high energy. This is a refreshing, dry white wine that just simply works.
90 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.
