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Leeuwin Estate 'Brut' Sparkling 2024
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- TASTING NOTE: The perfumed nose leaps up the glass with fragrant jasmine, pink lady apples and lemon peel before a baked apple crust and salted cracker character emerges. As the wine opens grapefruit and sherbert develop before subtle sea spray kicks in. On the palate Meyer lemon, granny smith apples and lime curd characters abound, filled out by phenolics that echo truly ripe grapefruit, and the fine bead promotes hints of a toasty brioche complexity. Freshness, brightness and liveliness define a sparkling that more than delivers on its joyous intent. Leeuwin Estate
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ABOUT THE WINE: This is the twenty-fourth release of Brut from Leeuwin Estate and is a fine example of a bottle fermented sparkling wine made using traditional techniques. Sourced from the Leeuwin Estate home block vineyards in the Margaret River region of Western Australia, the fruit was harvested and processed at the winery where the individual parcels were gently pressed with low yield to express the finest quality from the estate.
The lightly pressed grapes were cold settled, racked, and inoculated, with the Pinot Noir component fermented in stainless steel tanks and the Chardonnay portion fermented in older French oak barriques. Stirred every 2 weeks on lees in tank and barrel for 4 months to develop complexity. The base wines were then blended, lightly fined with bentonite and cold stabilised. In August 2024, the wine was tiraged, then rested on lees after secondary fermentation in bottle until April 2026, when it was disgorged. -
ABOUT THE PRODUCER: Leeuwin Estate, one of the founding wineries in the Margaret River region of Western Australia, is a family producer with an international reputation for creating wines ranking alongside the world’s finest. In 1972, legendary Napa Valley winemaker, Robert Mondavi, identified the future site of the Leeuwin vineyard as being ideal for the production of premium wine and provided early mentorship to Denis and Tricia Horgan in the transformation of their cattle farm into Leeuwin Estate. A nursery was planted in 1974 with vineyard sites planted from 1975. Enjoying its first commercial vintage in 1979, Leeuwin Estate was thrust into the global wine spotlight when Decanter Magazine highly recommended the 1981 “Art Series” Chardonnay after an international blind tasting. The accolades have continued, with Leeuwin Estate wines found in leading Restaurants and Wine Merchants across 30 markets. Now under the stewardship of three generations of the founding family, who work alongside a team of dedicated viticulturalists and winemakers, the focus remains firmly on creating site expressive wines of the finest quality. Celebrating the art of fine wine, the Estate’s most opulent and age worthy wines, the “Art Series’ are identified with paintings from Australia’s leading contemporary artists on the labels.
- COUNTRY: Australia
- REGION: Margaret River, Western Australia
- VARIETAL: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir
- WINE STYLE: Sparkling Wine
- WINEMAKER: Phil Hutchinson
- CLASSIFICATION: Sustainable Farming
- CLOSURE: Screwcap
- ABV%: 12%
- SIZE: 750ml
