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, 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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