Howard Park Jeté Rosé NV

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Howard Park Jeté Rosé NV.

Howard Park Jeté Rosé NV
$48, 12.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Great Southern.

If ever you wanted evidence that Howard Park’s grand sparkling play – under the name Jeté – is on the right track, this Howard Park Jeté Rosé NV provides it. It’s a beautiful sparkling rosé, and a worthy winner of a Gold Medal at Australia’s 2025 National Wine Show (not to mention its trophy win for Best Sparkling at the West Australian wine show in 2024). Winemaker Nic Bowen really has this wine singing, and tuned to perfection. It tastes shelly, strawberried, and generally complex/flavoursome, and yet it remains racy, which is what you want in fizz. No hesitation in recommending this. 93 points.

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 a respected 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 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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