Oakridge Blanc de Blancs 2018

Oakridge Blanc de Blancs 2018
$65, 12.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Yarra Valley.

Slowly but steadily Oakridge Blanc de Blancs has become one of the best sparkling wines in Australia. There’s so much fanfare around the table wines of Oakridge that this progress has largely gone under the radar. But this 2018 deserves to turn some of the light its way. It’s the combination of complexity and length that does it. Straight up, first sip, the heady grapefruit-and-nuts-and-brown bread characters arrest with their strength, followed then by red apple, preserved citrus and oyster shell characters of true beauty. Length and finesse are both on this wine’s side; indeed this sparkling wine has every angle covered. 94 points.