Stefano Lubiana Prestige 2011
$160
60/40 chardonnay pinot noir. Third release: 1995, 1999, and now this 2011. Steve Lubiana: “The best years for sparkling. 2011 was dry here. Cool but with little rain or disease pressure.”
Incredible sparkling. Intense. Oysters, rocks, texture, preserved citrus, just love the exaggerated character of this, and the intensity, and the length. This is sparkling wine as a stairway to heaven. It’s super. 97 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.
