Riversdale Estate NV Brut Reserve
- 93
- $45
- Drink by: 2025-2028
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Nicely executed sparkling from Australia’s premier sparkling wine region. The three-way blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier was aged 30 months on lees and comes to the glass light blush in colour, fine in bead and lively fresh. White flowers, acacia, honeysuckle, lemon, strawberry with bready notes and the enticing whiff of oyster shell. Freshness combines with complexity on a palate built on cool climate Tassie acidity. Fills with flavours of baked bread, baked apple, citrus, white peach and spice. 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.
