Winemaker Notes
The Patricia Pinot Noir & Chardonnay Brut has spent 6 years on yeast lees for autolysis development. This is a vital part of building flavur and complexity into the Patricia sparkling wines.
Professional Ratings
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Australian Wine Companion
An 80/20% blend from the high altitude Whitlands Plateau. Straw, with some colour from time on tirage. Granny Smith apple, citrus and melon; a complex and composed wine with depth of flavour, and a lightly creamy texture with a long, refined, dry finish.
Representing the topmost expression of a Champagne house, a vintage Champagne is one made from the produce of a single, superior harvest year. Vintage Champagnes account for a mere 5% of total Champagne production and are produced about three times in a decade. Champagne is typically made as a blend of multiple years in order to preserve the house style; these will have non-vintage, or simply, NV on the label. The term, "vintage," as it applies to all wine, simply means a single harvest year.
Nestled into the tip of its southeastern coastline, Victoria is Australia’s smallest mainland state, second most populous and third largest wine producer. Victoria includes the cool regions of Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula and Geelong, made famous mainly by impressive Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
The more inland Heathcote and Bendigo lead the way for complex and textured, full-bodied reds. Rutherglen’s fortified wines compete among the best on the planet.