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

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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