Cloudbreak Sparkling Blanc de Noir NV
$30, 12% alcohol, DIAM cork, Adelaide Hills.
Strawberried fruit flavours blend with cooked apple, citrus, grapefruit and brown bread-like characters. It’s not overly complex but it generates a decent amount of flavour and keeps pushing energetically from start to finish. Fresh and frisky is the take-home – in a positive way. 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.
