Oria-Riff Old Vine Semillon Dry White 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Oria-Riff Old Vine Semillon Dry White 2025.

Oria-Riff Old Vine Semillon Dry White 2025
$45, 12.1% alcohol, DIAM cork, McLaren Vale.

Personality. Character. Writ large. In fact so much so that some folks may well find this wine off-putting. It smells strongly of custard powder, hay, soil, lemon and aromatic herbs, and while the palate matches these characters it adds wax, brine and mandarin-peel. I personally love this wine, it keeps me guessing and keeps me interested, but it definitely needs the accompaniment of food and it’s destined to be divisive. 93+ points.

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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 both the highly respected The Winefront site (founded 2002) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer 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 national 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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