Howard Park Petit Jeté Blanc de Blancs NV
- 92
- $33
- Drink by: 2025-2028
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A 100% Chardonnay sparkling built on brisk acidity and offering plenty of bright, tangy fruit, which is no doubt the basis for the continuing rise and rise of the Blanc de Blancs market. It’s delivered in spades here. Generous in Chardonnay aromas of citrus and apple, florals of honeysuckle and chamomile, nut and baked quince. The palate lights up, fresh and bright, with a gradual building of citrus and grapefruit intensity and a nutty, flinty savouriness creeping in with brioche notes. Fine, balanced finish.
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.
