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1 December 2022 | Awards, Releases | Briar Ridge

2022 Single Vineyard White Release

The Briar Ridge Single Vineyard wines regularly take out some of the most prestigious awards in Australia. The 2021 Single Vineyard 'Briar Hill' Chardonnay recently won the Gold Medal and Trophy for 'Best Hunter Valley Chardonnay' in the 2022 James Halliday Australian Chardonnay Challenge.

The last few years have seen some of the coldest growing seasons with record levels of rainfall which leads to vigorous vineyard growth. According to winemaker Alex Beckett, this often leads to wines of purity and elegance with long cellaring potential.

“The cool seasons always herald my favourite wines,” said Alex. “This year we’ve got some exceptional Semillons and Chardonnays which I am very proud of. I think they are some of the best quality and most interesting wines I have made to date, and which will provide both immediate enjoyment as well as excellent cellaring potential.”

2021 Single Vineyard
Briar Hill Chardonnay
Mount View, Hunter Valley

From the vineyard’s best block of Chardonnay, south facing and planted on a 450-million-year-old marine fossil ridge, matured for 15 months with 100% new French oak fermentation, the result is a powerful, decadent yet restrained Hunter Valley Chardonnay filled with complex savoury characters, white peach, and flinty aromas.

2022 Single Vineyard
Dairy Hill Semillon
Mount View, Hunter Valley

With fruit from the oldest block of Semillon on the property on a south-east facing hillside slope at 170m above sea level, this is the Hunter Valley’s highest altitude Semillon vineyard, and is planted on rich Terra Rossa clay soil over limestone. Made using techniques typical of Semillon production in the 1940’s to 1960’s the wine shows expressive lime leaf aromas and concentrated citrus fruits surrounded by mouthcoating texture from extended aging on lees in old neutral oak casks. This wine has just been featured in the best 100 Australian Wines report of 2022 by Matthew Jukes, the pre-eminent Australian Wine Reviewer in the United Kingdom.