Seppelt Salinger Henty Vintage Cuvee 2015
- 94
- $30
- Drink by: 2021 - 2030
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This brilliantly packaged and presented wine has been at the forefront of Aussie fizz for years. It was one of the very first to announce Australia could really do this thing called sparkling wine. This is a blend of the three classic Champagne varieties, pinot noir, chardonnay, and pinot meunier, from the Henty vineyards of Seppelt. This naturally cool climate produces a crisp acidity which is ideal for sparkling wines. This spent five years on lees before bottling last December and in that time has picked up a subtle degree of autolysis character, where yeast cells impart the beautifully complex flavours for fizz. It’s a fine style with a core of nutty stone fruit and citrus working seamlessly with a subtle brioche light toastiness. It finishes with a crisp minerality that sustains it throughout.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
