Chandon Vintage Brut Sparkling
Fine and fresh delivering serious quality while still promoting a frivolous side. Chandon's Vintage has the depth of character that makes you sip, pause and reflect on its complex bakery notes, freshness and citrus fruit, while still enjoying its more obvious strawberry and cream character.
Craggy Range Gimblett Chardonnay
The Gimblett Gravels Chardonnay is made using very traditional winemaking techniques involving wild yeasts and the use of French oak barriques. The resulting wine is always finely flavoured and softly textured with a linear elegance that allows the wine to retain its freshness. Lovely aromatics of white flowers, peach, biscuit and flint. Integrated fresh flavours of stone fruits, lemon zest and roasted nuts create a generous and complex feel across the palate which is elegant and long on the finish.
Canard Duchene Rose Champagne
Refined and elegant, the cuvée Brut Rosé is perfect addition to your evening aperitif or soirée. .Nose: Intense aromas of fresh fruits, predominantly strawberry and raspberry. Eye: Slightly rosy hue, beautiful pearl finish, with fine bubbles. Palate: Notes of red fruit and subtle spicy aromas.
Bleasdale Sparkling Shiraz - Birch Cylinder
Birchwood Wine Cylinder. This wine is a non vintage blend of Shiraz that contains wine from every vintage of Shiraz since 1997. Each year in spring Bleasdale freshen the base blend by adding new vintage Shiraz, freshening the pre-Christmas bottling with new vintage wine, maintaining consistency. Bleasdale Sparkling Shiraz is richly flavoured with deep colour and displays dark berry fruit aromas, sweet plum and spicy flavours, silky tannins and a rich, velvety smooth palate.
Sidewood Signature Chloe Cuvée
No word of a lie, this is one of the best value sparkling offerings we've ever had the pleasure of puting together. Méthode Traditionelle, created in a world-class winery, with 6 years on yeast lees. This sparkling is completely at home with the best in the world. We know we've said it before but, it's important to note: Sidewood Estate have, what is considered by some to be, the most state-of-the-art sparkling winemaking facilities in the country, if not the world. Along with a reputation for astonishing wines, they also have a history of criminally under-pricing their own products. With a traditional blend of 65% chardonnay and 35% pinot noir, this wine has wonderfully toasty brioche aromas enhanced by zesty citrus and bright green apple. A harmonious palate of citrus blossom, biscuits and further green apple, is complemented by a clean, mineralic acidity and a loooooooong, elegant creamy finish. Where do we sign up?
Sidewood Isabella Late Disgorged Sparkling Rosé
Sidewood Estate have, what is considered by some to be, the most state-of-the-art sparkling winemaking facilities in the world. Along with a reputation for astonishing wines, they also have a history of criminally under-pricing their own products. This is a perfect example. Pristine fruit, treated in the traditional method and left 5 years on lees, the Isabella Late Disgorged is one for the sparkling purists. Speaking honestly here, if you chucked an old French guy's name on the label, even the most devout Champagne-heads would struggle to tell the difference. One of the best sparkling wines in the country and absolutely tremendous value.
Cloudy Bay Pelorus Non-Vintage
A sparkling from the popular Marlborough region of NZ. This is a deliciously crisp sparkling that is perfect for all occasions. Whether it's a small milestone or a big celebration you can't go wrong popping the cork of this quality sparkling.
Pommery Brut Royal Non-Vintage
Established in 1836, Madame Pommery is credited with creating the first vintage brut style of Champagne in 1874, at a time when most champagnes were excessively sweetened with sugar. This revolutionary dry style set the benchmark for the rest of Champagne and it is in this spirit that the style of Pommery endures; with each cuvée displaying sublime elegance, finesse and freshness. Pommery is one of the few Champagne Houses that produces their large formats in the actual bottle in order to allow for optimal ageing.
Te Mata Estate Elston Chardonnay
Appeasing fragrances of nectarine, stonefruit, honey and lemon zest flowing from the nose mellow down to provide undertones of crème Brulee, roast nuts and citrus fruit. The supple palate features crisp and classic Chardonnay fruit elements that are balanced by the fine and refreshing acidity, leading to a lengthy and persistent climax. Grilled shellfish dishes like scallops and lobster, wild mushrooms, white truffles and hazelnut crusted chicken taste excellent with this elegant Chardonnay wine.
Castelnau Champagne Brut Reserve
Located in the heart of Reims, Champagne, Castelnau represents the very essence of the region, with access to 900 hectares of vineyards across 155 crus, creating a unique grape growers collective that guarantees exceptional supply possibilities for the production of outstanding Champagne. Known for its extensive lees ageing, Champagne Castelnau has a long established reputation for its top quality range. This is the " signature dish" of the House of Castelnau with its stand-out characteristic of long maturation. The strength of the toasty notes from the Chardonnay recedes gradually to allow the sensation of spicy overtones of thyme and bay leaf to emerge. There are hints of white tobacco and dried flowers as well. Thanks to the presence of the reserve wines in the blend you begin to find warm praline flavours and toasted, grilled notes, gingerbread, almond, hazelnut balanced by fruit notes of peach and ripe apricots. The freshness on the palate comes from the Chardonnay in the blend and this also brings elegance to the finished wine.