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
AU$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 – Campbell Mattinson.

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

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Deviation Road has been named as a Best Australian Winery.

Campbell Mattinson

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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