Marnong Estate Blanc de Blancs 2022
- 92
- $80
- Drink by: 2025-2028
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It’s not often I get to write ‘bubbly oomph’ as a tasting descriptor, but this has it. Youthful zesty and super fresh with plenty of bubbly oomph, this blanc de blancs captures Chardonnay at its zingy-est. A nicely executed vintage sparkling boasting a fine bead and a wealth of apple blossom, white flowers, dusty lemon and quince, cut apple, almond meal and biscuit with a splash of saline-inviting oyster shell. Built on fresh acidity, it offers bright and tangy Chardonnay flavours with some autolysis-led notes of toasted nuts, almond bread. Good all-round balance on show.
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.
