Otway Wines Chimera Sparkling Pinot Noir Rosé 2023
AU$40, 12.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Geelong.
Copper-crimson in colour and carrying lots of flavour. Apple skin and core, toffee, raspberry, undergrowth and brown bread characters with citrus and cooked apple characters pushing through the finish. There’s a bit of grip to the finish and lots of character in general.
89 points – Campbell Mattinson.
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.
