The Lane Estate Cuvée Blanc de Blancs 2019
- 90
- $70
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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There’s an attractive mix of intensity and finesse to this charming sparkling sourced from high up – 450 metres, to be precise – in the Adelaide Hills. Looking fresh and composed in aromas of white flowers, grilled grapefruit, lemon, red apple, honeydew melon with a touch of nuttiness. Flavours are generous thanks to time in seasoned and new oak, aided by some complexing yeast autolysis. The result blends middle palate creaminess and character with the liveliness of a persistent airy bubble and mousse, and typically brisk Adelaide Hills acidity. Honeyed spiced pear, peach and citrus, grilled nuts and more are to be enjoyed in this smart, dry sparkling.
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.
