Winemaker Notes
Dry, refreshing, and perfumed, with a consistent and elegant bubble. Aromatics and flavors of daffodil, nougat, lemon aspen (a floral native citrus) and crunchy peach.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2018 Felicitas was picked on Valentines Day 2018, and it's composed 100% Fiano—handpicked, method traditional, 32 months on the lees, zero dosage. On the nose, this is floral and plump, with cheesecloth, brine, honeysuckle and nashi pears. It retains its Fiano soul throughout but has gentle autolytic complexity that colors the edges of the experience. The mousse is plump and fine. It's very good—not at all what I expected from a sparkling Fiano. Much better.
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.
Historically some of Australia’s most lucrative gold country, today Heathcote maintains its esteemed reputation as a source of country’s best red wines. The rolling countryside of ancient reddish brown soils bordered by mountain ranges that funnel cool air into the region during the growing season create some of Australia’s most deeply-hued and impressively layered Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon wines.