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 Wine Companion.

When you pick up a wine book or a wine website and see thousands of wines with 95 point and above scores, it’s hard to know which of these wines to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, leading you to the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines, the most prestigious wines and simply, to the best tasting wines.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987 and a wine critic since 2000. He is the only Australian wine journalist to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once.

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