Author: Huon Hooke
Source: therealreview.com
Date: 6 December 2017
Daosa Blanc de Blancs 2012
Light to medium straw-yellow colour, and a bouquet which smacks of oak and lees-aging in the first instance. It has a coconutty, oak-driven bouquet, but the palate is better balanced. It’s dry, clean and crisp on the aftertaste, with pleasing texture and quite low dosage. The oak provides some grip to the palate. Very good intensity and refinement, linear and long in the mouth, taut and nervy with vibrant acidity and a clean, dry aftertaste. A very serious wine, just stopping short of austerity. (Piccadilly Valley, single vineyard. First fermentation and aging in seasoned oak for 5 months; 60 months on lees. 1, 615 bottles produced.)
Note: 93/100
Price: $55
Drink: 2019 to 2034
