Sparkling Pinot Noir Wines

Bird in Hand might sound a bit silly, but this is seriously good booze and the winemaking behind this Adelaide Hills winery is more than accomplished. From humble beginning this modest winery has gone onto win accolades all over the world and we t...

This Blanc de Noir from Devaux is made from 100% pinot noir, so we are talking about a richer style of Champagne here. There are plenty of ripe strawberries, plums, red apples and earthiness on the nose, together with a sniff of toasted bread. The...

Medium to light yellow colour. Slightly candied fruit aroma, with a trace of pineapple, and subtle background cracked-yeast breadiness. Fairly bold, big flavour, with a dry-ish, low liqueur taste and a touch of unevenness across the palate: not se...

Pale yellow hue. Iced pastry and straw aromas, macaroon, meringue smells. Very high acidity, tangy and almost wincingly tart. Quite sour, really: it has sweetness, but needs more sweetness or less acid for good balance. Dry, modest length.

Medium to full yellow colour. Candied fruit and glace fruit plus yeasty characters to sniff. Bread and straw. Full in the mouth and dry, with balanced and soft acidity, but also good life and verve, despite obvious age. Rich and mouthfilling, with...

Slaty, light yellow/straw colour. Very smoky, pinoty nose, with lots of earthy minerally character. Full-bodied and on the drier side. Deep flavour and very savoury, mineral, rocky/stony and firmly structured. A little of the woodwinds without the...

Light pink colour. Musty corked nose. Shy, a bit lacking flavour. Damaged bottle.

This wine rules the magic line above which I will buy champagne every time. Its secret is the icy Whitlands vineyard in the foothills of the Victorian snowfields, with an altitude that defines its taut, mineral backbone, overlaid with the toasty c...

Very reserved, with a delicate, musky and faintly herbal bouquet of red cherries and sweet vanilla oak backed by nuances of musk and dried herbs. It's medium to fullish in weight, with an initially generous presence of faintly sour-edged cherry/be...

A juicy, jammy and rather minty pinot whose earthy, menthol-like aromas of dark cherries, plums and cedar/ chocolate oak precede a smooth and polished palate. It's a little exaggerated, reminiscent of Adelaide Hills pinot, and while it has plenty ...

Eden Road wines are beautifully presented. This wine's from New South Wales' Tumbarumba region - one of the highest (altitude) wine regions in Australia. Tumbarumba is renowned for its chardonnay, and sometimes for its sparkling wines, but this ...

It's unusual to find a sparkling red made from pinot noir, though it's a variety that can work well in the style. Indeed, there should be more of them. You'd expect it to be light and fragrant, but it's sweet and substantial. It tastes of underg...

Watch out as this isn t a blanc de noir; it s a sparkling red made with pinot noir. The nose is unmistakable, with plenty of brambly red berry fruit aromas, and the palate s brash and knockabout style is all juicy, flavoursome and gently chewy.

Plenty of colour, and the bouquet offers plenty of character, with wild strawberry, pain grillee and hints of florals; the palate is dry and chalky, tight and refined, with a long and fresh finish.

Pale pink colour, very lightly tache tinged. Sweetly cherry-like and smoky pinot-like bouquet, showing the merest trace of development. Lemony as well. Slightly shrill acidity, somewhat harsh and metallic tasting. Firm, dry finish.