Shy Susan Blanc de Blancs 2019

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Shy Susan Blanc de Blancs 2019.

Shy Susan Blanc de Blancs 2019
$75, 12.5% alcohol, crown seal, Tasmania.

The best trick with sparkling wine – apart from adding some joy to your life – is to deliver flavour in an elegant way. That’s exactly what this wine does, and then adds a bit of flair. It tastes of apples and grapefruit, citrus and sweet pastries, all of which would be enough in itself – except that this wine then adds a genuine kick (of extra flavour) through the finish, which makes you stop and take special notice. This sparkling wine is excellent and then some. 95 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 a respected 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 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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