Anvers Sparkling Pinot Noir Chardonnay NV
$28, 12% alcohol, DIAM cork, Adelaide Hills.
This is a fun bottle of fizz. It’s peachy, vibrant and full of flavour, it citrus notes sprinkled with raspberries, its pastry notes studded with strawberries. There’s a gentle fruit sweetness, which gives the fruit more punch, though it’s generally a dry style. It will please all-comers. 90 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
