Briar Ridge Wrattonbully Viognier 2024
- 91
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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A Viognier that side steps the grape’s richer, oily side, choosing to focus on a style that is more measured and discreet. The result is a Viognier with a touch of class, of nuance not overkill. It will definitely make fans of the grape happy. Lovely fruit weight and spice-laden palate maintaining a fine line of lime and citrus with white peach flavours that slowly build, finishing with a gentle spicy kick. A mix of new and seasoned French oak is well integrated, contributing a layer of light nougat across the mid palate. Altogether, one smart Viognier.
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.
