Daosa Late Disgorged Blanc de Blancs 2018
AU$180, 13% alcohol, DIAM cork, Adelaide Hills.
This is fresh and welcoming but also immeasurably complex. It’s a wonderful bottle of sparkling wine. It’s savoury and citrussy, laced with yeast and blackcurrant bud notes, oystery through the finish and tapped with a briny dryness. It’s zippy in general but there’s a touch of satin to the texture too. It’s terrific.
96 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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
