Premius Cremant de Bordeaux Brut NV
$50, 12% alcohol, cork, Bordeaux/France.
If you’re looking for a crowd pleaser, look no further. This is alive with fruit and spice-like notes and feels soft and satisfying throughout. It tastes of fresh and cooked apples, blackcurrant bud and ginger, and from start to finish it delivers plenty. 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.
