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

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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