Author: Huon Hooke Source: therealreview.com Date: 5 November 2018 Daosa Natural Réserve – April 2016 tirage Light to mid-straw colour with a tint of rose-gold. The bouquet is pinoty and quite complex, with nougat and toast aromas plus cashew and almond, with a background coconutty hint of the oak barrel. It’s full-bodied, rich and deeply-flavoured with a very dry,…
DetailsAuthor: Winsor Dobbin Source: winsordobbin.com.au, winsorschoice.blogspot.com Review Date: November 10, 2018 Daosa Natural Réserve – April 2016 tirage I was chatting a couple of weeks ago to Brian Croser, one of the eminence gris of the Australian wine industry, and he mentioned that he thought DAOSA was one of the better sparkling wines in the country. Now Brian…
DetailsAuthor: Tony Love Source: The Advertiser Date: 7 November 2018 Down to Earth Sauvignon Blanc 2017 One of our most decisively different sauvignons, eschewing the wild tropicals and green grassiness of other popular styles to set its own aromatic and textural palate parameters. Just over a third of the wine has been fermented in large format oak vessels and…
DetailsAuthor: Tony Love Source: The Advertiser Date: 31 October 2018 Daosa Natural Réserve – 2016 tirage Daosa is the sparkling project associated with the Terre a Terre team Xavier Bizot, from the Bollinger family, and his wife Lucy Croser, daughter of Petaluma founder and now Tapanappa head Brian Croser. So there’s a lot of background nous in these bubbles,…
DetailsAuthor: James Halliday Source: Week end Australian Review Date: October 13, 2018 Daosa Natural Réserve – April 16 tirage 85% pinot noir, 15% chardonnay, hand-picked, whole-bunch-pressed, 85% fermented in tank, 15% in used French barriques, 18 months on tirage, 7.5g/l dosage. Ticks all the boxes; elegance, balance, length; ripe citrus, some Granny Smith. Rated: 95 points *** part of an article on an Adelaide…
DetailsAuthor: Stuart Robinson Source: thevinsomniac.com Review Date: September 29, 2018 Daosa Natural Réserve – April 16 tirage Badged as an NV wine, yet with 85% base wine from 2016 it could equally be declared as a vintage. It’s also 85% Pinot Noir, the balance being Chardonnay. The Natural part refers – I think – to the addition of zero sulphur. Delicate: quince,…
DetailsAuthor: Stuart Robinson Source: thevinsomniac.com Review Date: September 29, 2018 Terre à Terre Summertown Vineyard Reserve – Pinot Noir – 2017 2017 was a warm, yet late, vintage and the finicky Pinot Noir required extra management to see it through a growing season. The extra care didn’t stop in the vintage, with additional work from the winemakers hand. Soft and…
DetailsAuthor: Patrick Eckel Source: winereviewer.com.au Review Date: October 29 2018 Terre à Terre Summertown Vineyard Reserve – Pinto Noir – 2017 This is a step up in terms of the quality of Pinot Noir released by Terre a Terre with the wine enjoying 15% whole bunches as part of the ferment, maturation in 40% new french oak and bottling without…
DetailsAuthor: Patrick Eckel Source: winereviewer.com.au Review Date: October 12, 2018 Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Reserve 2015 The wine is a blend of Cabernet 60% , 20% Shiraz and 20% Cabernet Franc that is aged in 75% new oak for 6 months prior to 15 months in 5 year old demi muids prior to bottling and ageing in bottle…
DetailsAuthor: Patrick Eckel Source: winereviewer.com.au Review Date: November 7, 2018 Daosa Natural Reserve (April 18 disgorging) The sparkling base was made up of 85% 2016 vintage, with a blend of reserve wines from 2015 making up the balance. The base was aged in barrel for 18 months without sulphur prior to triage and ageing on lees in bottle for a…
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