Mumm Marlborough Brut Prestige NV

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Mumm Marlborough Brut Prestige NV.

Mumm Marlborough Brut Prestige NV
$40, 12% alcohol, DIAM cork, Marlborough/NZ.

Great packaging, very good wine, stand-out value. This sparkling wine delivers exactly what you want: genuine fanfare to the flavour and an air of crispness. The flavours are in the lemon, peach, cinnamon-donut and strawberry realm but who’s counting when all the various ducks have been so skilfully placed in a row. It’s all about the wine in the bottle – which delivers handsomely – but gosh this bottle looks good on the table too. 93 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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