Caraccioli Cellars Brut Cuvee 2019

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Caraccioli Cellars Brut Cuvee 2019.

Caraccioli Cellars Brut Cuvee 2019
12% alcohol, cork, Santa Lucia Highlands.

60/40 blend chardonnay/pinot noir. Four years (plus) on lees.
This is a thrilling bottle of sparkling wine. The acidity is bracing, the structure of high import. It’s layered with bread, strawberry, oyster shell, green apple and citrus sorbet characters but it’s the intensity and the length that draws you in. Indeed it’s one of those wines that keeps on going beyond when you think it could reasonably and satisfyingly stop. In short, it’s elegant, long and characterful. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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