Yarrabank Cuvee 2020
$50, 12.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Yarra Valley.
This is just simply beautiful. It’s so oystery, so blessed with fruit flavour, so zippy through the finish and just so light and airy as it passes through your mouth. It’s a big Yes Please and Thank You, I will Have Another Glass, And Don’t Be So Stingy With The Pour This Time. Lemons, stonefruits, honey, yeast and salty oyster characters. I’m telling you. This is a delicious sparkling wine. 94 points.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
