Howard Park Jeté Grand Vintage 2019

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Howard Park Jeté Grand Vintage 2019.

Howard Park Jeté Grand Vintage 2019
$58, 12.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Great Southern.

Jeté has been making good quality sparkling wine for some years now but with this release of its Grand Vintage 2019, it’s gone up a gear or two, and really entered elite territory. This wine is a steal at $58. It tastes of Vegemite, strawberries, brine, grapefruit and cooked apples, though get ten wine critics in a room and they’ll all describe it differently. A more accurate thing to say is that it’s a wine of seamless complexity. It rolls through the palate with sparklers attached. The brine/yeasty/interplay here is captivating and delicious. 94 points.

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 the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist 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 prized 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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