DAOSA Late Disgorged Blanc de Blancs 2018
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- $90
- Drink by: 2026-2030+
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This is only the second DAOSA Late Disgorged (LD) Blanc de Blancs produced. The sparkling was aged for 88 months on lees before disgorgement on June 24, this year. Mid-yellow hues. Arrives nicely restrained, intense, with an aroma of white peach, melon, honeysuckle, baked quince, lemon pastille, almond, toast and honey biscuits. It’s a mature flavour, indeed, an amalgam of mature, complex flavours with a lasting nuttiness. But, here’s the thing- it seems younger than the vintage date suggests in large part because the acidity – and the winemaking – helps the sparkling retain a youthful brightness, bounce and life. Super fine texture, gently creamy with a concentrated centre of citrus, grapefruit, peach, brioche and grilled nuts. Fresh, composed and immaculately balanced. The maker suggests it’s good for 25 years cellaring potential. The question is – are you the patient type?
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
