Five Vineyard Sparkling Rosé NV
$30, 12.3% alcohol, DIAM cork, Plenty/Port Phillip/Victoria.
There’s energy to this wine, and bright strawberried flavour, and gentle earthen complexities, and all-round fun – all set within a dry, steely, well crafted context. There’s a splash of grapefruit in the mix here too; this would work a treat at the lunch table, not to mention in the daily celebration of life. This is a good wine to spend time with. 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.
