Brown Brothers Patricia Brut 2015

Ever wondered about the transformation in sparkling wines that comes with extended time on yeast lees? Yes? Then this is a wine to satisfy your curiosity. Smell the yeasty brioche, roasted nuts, take in the shortbread scents and then the freshness of stone fruits, lemon and melon. These are the kind of complex aromas that come with six years on lees. What follows takes you further down the wine tasting road, to a creamy mouth feel filled with fruit and nuts and a dry, intriguing pithiness, like sucking on grapefruit, that refreshes. It’s all entwined in delicious bright, zesty acidity. That’s the kind of transformation that occurs, and in the 2015 Patricia sparkling it makes for a mighty good bubbly.