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. There’s so much fanfare around the table wines of Oakridge that this progress has largely gone under the radar. But this 2018 deserves to turn some of the light its way. 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, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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