Deviation Road Beltana Blanc de Blancs 2017

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle image of Deviation Road Beltana Blanc de Blancs 2017.

Deviation Road Beltana Blanc de Blancs 2017
$110, 12.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Adelaide Hills.

This wine, six years on lees, poised on a pinhead, with a total production of only 150 dozen, is the glory of sparkling wine, in the bottle, in the glass. It is everything that is good, proper and inspiring about sparkling wine as a thing, as a life, as an enjoyable. It’s intense, it’s complex and it’s elegant, with steel, brine, candied fruit and nut characters twisted and twined together like wires in a polished, perfect casing. This wine is now eight years old, if it’s a day. It will drink well for another five or ten years, in a doddle. 95 points.

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Nine vintages of Deviation Road Beltana Blanc de Blancs have been reviewed on The Winefront.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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