Deviation Road Beltana Blanc de Blancs 2017

Deviation Road Beltana Blanc de Blancs 2017
$110, 12.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Adelaide Hills.

This wine, six years on lees, poised on a pinhead, with a total production of only 150 dozen, is the glory of sparkling wine, in the bottle, in the glass. It is everything that is good, proper and inspiring about sparkling wine as a thing, as a life, as an enjoyable. It’s intense, it’s complex and it’s elegant, with steel, brine, candied fruit and nut characters twisted and twined together like wires in a polished, perfect casing. This wine is now eight years old, if it’s a day. It will drink well for another five or ten years, in a doddle. 95 points.

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Nine vintages of Deviation Road Beltana Blanc de Blancs have been reviewed on The Winefront.