Oakridge Blanc de Blancs 2019
$65, 13% alcohol, DIAM cork, Yarra Valley.
It’s not quite up to the same standard as the excellent 2018 release but the quality here is still up there. This is an elegant, seamless release with sweet, roasted nut, grapefruit, fresh bread and citrus characters carrying it through to a well sustained finish. This is complex without being in-your-face about it. 93 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.
