Riversdale Estate Blanc de Blanc 2017
- 91
- $50
- Drink by: 2023-2025
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A bright and lively cool climate, Chardonnay-based sparkling – the kind that Tasmania does so well – that carries with it the benefit of aging on yeast lees. The result is a vintage sparkling, fine in bead and boasting a wealth of expressive aromas and flavours. Nice biscuits and fresh-baked pastry, citrus, red apple mix with gentle florals and rockpool notes. Shows poise and a subtle complexity with a solid core of fresh fruit intensity delivered with a nutty complexity. But that cool acidity and mineral, oyster shell tang, boy, really resonates! What a delight. Impressive.
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.
