Mumm Tasmania Brut Prestige NV

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Mumm Brut Prestige NV from Tasmania.

Mumm Tasmania Brut Prestige NV
$38, 12% alcohol, DIAM cork, Tasmania.

This is from Mumm’s new Terroirs range, and is the Tasmanian release. There’s also a Mumm Prestige Brut from Marlborough in New Zealand.

This is a sparkling wine for those who like a bit of friskiness to their fizz. It’s lean and lemony with sorbet and tonic characters darting throughout. The refreshment factor is high. There’s a soft vanilla-bean note too, which whispers a creaminess into the wine. You won’t find a lot of depth here but it finishes with a mouthwatering flourish. You don’t normally say this with a NV sparkling wine but this will likely score higher in 12 months time. 90 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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