Daosa Blanc de Blancs 2021
- 95
- $90
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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The 2021 vintage is proving to be a superb one in the Adelaide Hills for table wines, and it looks as though it is just as thrilling for sparklings. This is from the Piccadilly Valley subregion. The vineyard was planted thirty years ago. 100% Chardonnay, of course, the wine spent over 3½ years on lees before disgorgement. Dosage is a low 4 grams per litre. A deep yellow/pineapple hue, the nose reveals aromas of peaches, citrus, nectarines, a flick of honeysuckle, florals and jasmine. This is clean, fresh and lingering with good balance and a fine line of acidity. A really good Australian sparkling wine. Enjoy this over the next six to ten years.
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.
