Deviation Road Beltana Blanc de Blancs 2016

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Deviation Road Beltana Blanc de Blancs 2016.

Deviation Road Beltana Blanc de Blancs 2016
$110, 12.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Adelaide Hills.

Beautiful wine in a beautiful place. The balance of toasty, shelly, fruity, earthen notes is excellent. This is very nice fizz. That merging of toast and brine, burnt croissants and seaweed is quite wonderfully played. Sweet/ripe fruit but with lots of salty, savoury extras. 95 points.

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

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of both The Winefront site (founded in 2002, and the home of Australia’s best Australian wine reviews) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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