Howard Park Methodé Traditionnelle Blanc de Blancs NV
- 92
- $32
- Drink by: 2025-2029
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100% Chardonnay from the Pemberton and Mt Barker regions, this release is based on the 2022 vintage and spent twenty-one months on lees. Deep straw/gold in colour, the nose redolent of peaches, nectarines and pears, with a line of citrus notes. Fresh and bright, with good exuberance, this is of medium length with a persistent finish. A clean and vibrant style, this is a pleasing sparkler which will provide pleasure any time from now and 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.
