Terre à Terre DAOSA Blanc de Blancs 2018
- 95
- $90
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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A contrasting year and style to the previous 2017 vintage release which reinforces our understanding of what a vintage sparkling wine is and should deliver. We expect vintage variation or otherwise what’s the point? Here, you have it. The excellent 2017 DAOSA hailed from a cooler, wetter year. The 2018 vintage was warmer, drier and the result is a generous mouthful of flavour, one beautifully countered by Piccadilly Valley’s tangy acid drive. The singular integrity of Adelaide Hills Chardonnay is on display here so is, too, the kind of complexity achieved by more than four years on lees. It’s a powerful alchemy. An arresting, inviting bouquet awaits in white flowers, lemon-citrus, peach, apple, light confection notes and almond. Extended time on lees offers a powerful centrepiece to the wine of layered biscuit, brioche and sweet almond nougat amid white summer fruits enhanced by Hills’ über-fresh, riveting acidity. Captures the year succinctly while remaining true to the elegance we associate with DAOSA blanc de blancs. Precision all the way.
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.
