Winemaker Notes
Only the best hand-picked fruit from the vineyard is selected for this definitive Australian sparkling wine. Select barrel fermentation and three years of lees ageing provides this wine with the complexity, creaminess and sophistication that have become the trademark of Jansz Tasmania.
Professional Ratings
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Australian Wine Companion
The classic chardonnay/pinot noir blend from Pipers River. Pale straw with a fine, energetic bead and mousse. Notes of green apple and citrus fruits with shortbread biscuits, sea spray, white flowers, crushed stone, ozone, grilled cashews and crème fraîche. Flavoursome and pure with fine, lacy, saline acidity driving the wine along and plenty of crisp detail on the finish.
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James Suckling
This creamy sparkling has aromas and flavors of green apples and berries, as well as hints of white chocolate, salted almonds and citrus rind. It’s medium-bodied and nicely complex, with fine, soft bubbles and a cool 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.
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.