Dr Edge Tasmania Brut Nature NV
12.5% alcohol, cork, Tasmania.
This will be hard to find but, should you do, you are onto something special.
Super austere, super long, chalk and lemon, salts, pith. Incredibly direct, dry, long, pure, intense, tense sparkling wine. So much dynamism. This is a wine for the true sparkling believers. 94 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.
