Briar Ridge Early Harvest Hunter Valley Semillon 2023
- 89
- $27
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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This is Semillon au naturel. Picked early, no additions, with an engaging, zesty simplicity to start, it will ever so slowly evolve, and change, and engage further with time. It’s what you might call a sleeper, except it’s pretty delicious as it is right now. Green apple scents, lemon zest, ginger and saline. Bright, zesty acidity is key to this wine, the result of an early picking. It’s brisk across the palate but not aggressive. Flavours are subtle, clean, appley and pear focused with gentle background herbals. before going long on the finish. I can imagine a meal with a glass and pan-fried fish – they are made for each other.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
