Briar Ridge Block 7 Chardonnay 2025
$50, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Orange.
This is the perfect modern chardonnay. It has richness, it has elegance, it has structure and it has flair. From start to finish it’s clear that you’re in confident, accomplished hands. It tastes of white peach, lemonade, minerals, cedar and brine, with sparks of flint, tonic-like herbs and woodsmoke as highlights. It is, without question, a beautiful white wine. 95 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.
