Briar Ridge Limited Release Viognier 2025
$40, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Wrattonbully.
This viognier from Wrattonbully is guaranteed to impress and to satisfy. It’s a ripper of a white wine. It’s flush with stonefruit and grapefruit-like fruit flavour; it has a dry, stony sophistication; it’s textural and dry but then it’s also just juicy, mouthwatering and more-ish. Basically it’s everything you could hope for and more. 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.
