Daosa Blanc de Blancs 2019
- 95
- $90
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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This superb local sparkler, 100% Chardonnay, spent more than four years on lees, impressive even by the standards seen in Champagne. Fruit from a single vineyard in the Adelaide Hills, this is the ninth release of this wine. A seriously impressive sparkler, by any standards. Pale lemon in colour, this is finely crafted with aromas of spices, apples, florals and chalk notes. A quality and classy Blanc de Blancs with a creamy texture. Enjoy this now and over the next eight years. Superb.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
