J&S Fielke Blanc de Blancs 2023

This comes from the Deanery vineyard in Balhannah, grown organically. Wild ferment, to barrel, unsulphured until just before bottling. The wine remained on lees for 18 months. The ’23 season’s lighter frame gets savouriness built in, and seamlessly. Gingery notes, stewed apple strudel with cinnamon, nashi pear, salted almond and light honeycomb notes. Assured, fine boned, rich but not overtly so, and bright and minerally through the finish. Quite a vinous sparkling wine; you can see the quality through the fizz and accoutrement of winemaking. Wonderful drinking. 95 points – Halliday Wine Companion

Sourced from the Deanery Vineyard in Balhannah and farmed using Organic methodology. The 2023 season was a very cool, prolonged growing cycle, ideal for sparkling wine with rich fruit flavour development. The wine was whole bunch press, and settled overnight before barrelling down to barrel (50% second fill), for a wild fermentation. After completing malo in the Spring, the wine was tirage, unfiltered, in December 2023. After 18 months on lees, the wine was disgorged with 2g/L dosage, and the first sulphur addition of the wine’s life.