Marnong Estate Blanc de Blancs 2022
$80, 12.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Sunbury.
There’s a taut control to this sparkling wine. It tastes of green apple and preserved lemon, baked pastry and vanilla, and while it’s slender and straightforward it feels pure and precise. The refreshment factor is high but quality-wise it’s more than that. It’s not really the intention but this wine could/should age well too. 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.
