Winemaker Notes
Since 1994, the blend has evolved to include all three classic sparkling grapes, with Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier added to attain the iconic style.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A deep, golden hue here. This has very complex and savory aromas of toasted hazelnut, chalk, lemon peel, dried peach and generally chardonnay-dominant style. The palate has quite rich, full flavors with hazelnut and gently spicy dried-peach and lemon flavors. Toasty resolve. Drinking well now.
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.
Directly south of the city of Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula wine region, the cool-climate island of Tasmania has earned an honorable reputation as the country’s finest producer of Sparkling Wine. Naturally the region also excels in top quality still wines from Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Riesling, all distinguished because of a high natural acidity. Most of the Tasmania vineyards cluster around the eastern side of the island from north to south.