Daosa Blanc de Blancs Late Disgorged 2017
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- $180
- Drink by: 2025-2029
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This is a single vineyard wine from the team’s Chardonnay vineyard at Summerton in the sub-region of the Piccadilly Valley in the Adelaide Hills. The vineyard was planted around thirty years ago. After the initial fermentation, the wine stayed in barrel for a further eight months for malolactic. The wine spent ninety months on lees, prior to disgorging in June this year. Dosage is just four grams per litre. Deep straw in colour, the nose gives notes of wet slate, citrus, toast and vegemite, spices and there is a minerally support system. Finally balanced, it is already exhibiting good complexity, with serious length. So much to like here. Enjoy this over the next four 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.
