Kyneton Ridge Sparkling Pinot Noir Chardonnay NV
$50, 12% alcohol, DIAM cork, Macedon Ranges.
There’s a generosity to the flavour here. It tastes of hay and preserved lemons, grilled peaches and sweet pastry, with a slip of strawberry adding to the parade. One sip and you think: yep, I’m happy with this. It’s not short on complexity but it’s the buoyancy of the fruit flavours that draws you in. 91 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.
