$45.00
In stock
Eminence
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir
Whitlands
Australia
NV
750ml
75% 2023 vintage, 25% reserve wine from 2022 and 2021. Pinot Noir (62%), Chardonnay (29%) and Pinot Meunier (9%). The Piccadilly Valley’s answer to Brut Champagne, spending 20 months on lees. Terrific aromatics and complex to boot. Grapefruit, pithy citrus, ginger, honeysuckle, nougart, lime, green peppercorns, strawberry, and red apple. Intense, balanced and mellowed and […]
Disg. March 2024. Jack and Lois Doeven’s Drumborg site is again the source for the Rosé de Saignée. Ray Nadeson and Maree Collis have worked with this site for 20-odd years, placing great value on the vineyard’s high natural acidity at full ripeness. The composition here is Meunier at 42%, Pinot Gris at 39% and […]
Sparkling or Champagne that spends this amount of time on lees, 90 months in this case, can have too much savouriness and leesy-ness, without enough freshness or fruit. However, the Daosa Blanc de Blancs is gorgeous, mineral, generous and intense, without any loss of freshness or fruit profile. It’s a remarkable feat in sparkling winemaking […]
55/45% pinot noir/chardonnay. The base vintage is 2018 with reserve wines added; 40 months on lees. Disgorged October, 2021. 8g/L dosage. A finely beaded, salmon-pink sparkling that rates among Australia’s best. Confidently presented with complexity and poise, Altair wears a delicate sheen of savoury autolysis with almonds, baked pastry, poached pear, bright red berries aromas. […]