Clover Hill Vintage Cuvée (2016)

750mL / Tasmania

Category: Sparkling
Sub-Category: Australian

Clover Hill Classic Vintage Cuvée is an elegant wine with superb length, truly capturing the essence of the cool climate of Tasmania.

This wine is crafted in the traditional winemaking methods, with portions aged in small-format French oak foudres and barriques to highlight the complexity that can be achieved by a sparkling house of this calibre.

Clover Hill sparkling wine is sourced from pre-eminent vineyards in Tasmania, an area becoming acknowledged as the premier location for cool-climate sparkling wine in Australia.

Clover Hill's first vintage was in 1991, which solely comprised chardonnay.

Since 1994, the blend has evolved to include all three classic sparkling grapes, with pinot noir and pinot meunier added to attain the iconic style.

Tasting Notes:

66% Chardonnay
32% Pinot Noir
2% Pinot Meunier

With a distinct golden hue attributed by yeast development in bottle from over 5 years on lees and the blending of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier.

Clover Hill Classic Vintage Cuvée displays exquisite nutty and toasted notes on the nose with a hint of seaspray and oyster shell.

On the palate, it delivers a seamless crisp acid line with a creamy layered palate indicative to the cool climate of the Pipers River Region of Tasmania.

This wine has texture, complexity and persistence which are all trademarks of the house style of Clover Hill.

Technical Details:

Acid: 8.0 g/L
pH: 3.12
Alc: 12.5%
Sugar: 10 g/L