Seville Estate Blanc de Blancs 2017
- 91
- $55
- Drink by: 2020 - 2023
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An intriguing style of sparkling from the Yarra. Fragrant and very much in the bold and brassy style. Notes of stonefruit sit upon rich toastiness and brioche characters. Has some serious length and maintains its intensity throughout. Well balanced. An impressive New World fizz. This is a no dosage sparkler (meaning bone dry), but it avoids any of the harshness that mars that style which seems to afflict the non-dosage Champagnes coming from some famous names.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
