This is quite something. Indeed it’s a fundamentally compelling bottle of sparkling wine. The intensity of flavour, the underlying chalkiness, the frame of steel, fruit and earth, and the spread-and-run of the finish all make for a wine of outstanding quality. The complex hit of umami-and-grapefruit flavour here is worth seeking out in itself. Daosa, once again, proves that its sparkling wines are up with the best of them.
95 points
The fruit is entirely from the Bizot vineyard in Piccadilly Valley, an elevated site planted 1995/1996 in the village of Summertown. The fruit is fermented
So bright and playful with citrus blossom, lemon curd, oyster shell, wet stone and a flinty, steely reduction. The palate is tightly knit with taut
The 12th release of this wine, it is 100% Chardonnay from the Bizot Vineyard in Piccadilly Valley. Under Diam. 2022 was a very fine vintage