PJ Dredge Blanc de Noirs 2020
12.5% alcohol, cork, Tasmania.
This is a sparkling wine to make you sit up and take notice. It’s a wine of electric acidity, flooded with flavour, grapefruit and kaffir lime, stones, rind, tonic and mineral. The strawberry notes here are so white, so cool, so thrilling. This is a great addition to the Australian sparkling landscape. 95 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.
