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Levantine Hill Blanc De Blancs Sparkling 2018
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- TASTING NOTE: Made from 100% Chardonnay, this wine features delicate fruit flavour with biscuity complexity, silky texture and fine linear acidity.
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ABOUT THE WINE: An initially cool growing season, leading into a warm and stable Summer provided excellent conditions for producing sparkling wine. A single block, single vineyard base wine was fermented in combination of a stainless steel tank and old oak barrels to support and enhance the depth, richness and intensity of varietal character. Only 320 cases made. Levantine Hill
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER: This is the most ambitious project in the Yarra Valley since the establishment of Domaine Chandon a quarter of a century ago. It is the venture of Lebanese-born Elias (Eli) Jreissati and wife Colleen, Eli having amassed a fortune as a property developer, that business continuing apace. Levantine Hill has two vineyards, the larger (18ha) and older established by Soo Son in 1995, and purchased by Levantine Hill in 2010. The second vineyard fronts Hill Road with a little over 5ha of young vines. All the major varieties of the Yarra Valley are planted on one or other of the two vineyards, but the Soo Son vineyard is the more important from a business viewpoint. It has provided space for a cellar door, restaurant and winery designed by Fender Katsalidis, who created Hobart's avant garde, and technically awesomely challenging MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), and the Eureka Tower in Melbourne. The ground-hugging, futuristic buildings, their roof line reminiscent of a stealth bomber, are visible from the Maroondah Highway, and easily accessed via Hill Road. James Halliday
- COUNTRY: Australia
- REGION: Victoria, Yarra Valley
- VARIETAL: Chardonnay
- WINE STYLE: Sparkling Wine
- WINEMAKER: Paul Bridgeman, Peter Shone
- CLOSURE: Screwcap
- ABV%: 12%
- SIZE: 750ml
