Oakridge Blanc de Blancs 2018

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Oakridge Blanc de Blancs 2018.

Oakridge Blanc de Blancs 2018
$65, 12.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Yarra Valley.

Slowly but steadily Oakridge Blanc de Blancs has become one of the best sparkling wines in Australia. It’s the combination of complexity and length that does it. Straight up, first sip, the heady grapefruit-and-nuts-and-brown bread characters arrest with their strength, followed then by red apple, preserved citrus and oyster shell characters of true beauty. Length and finesse are both on this wine’s side; indeed this sparkling wine has every angle covered. 94 points.

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 the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist 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 prized 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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