Don’t buy cheap NV Champagne. Go this 2014 Clover Hill Vintage Brut instead January 26, 2021
Why would you drink middling $45 Mumm when you can have this charismatic Clover Hill Vintage Release 2014 for the same price?
I know, it’s a rhetorical question, one that I’ve posed before (here), but I want to bring it up again because everyone needs to hear it again, and Australia Day (whatever the date is) provides a good opportunity to push the case of good Australian fizz over Champagne.
Clover Hill is particularly notable because the recent releases from this Tassie stalwart have been uniformly impressive, and this ’14 Brut is v. good. Yeasty nose, has quite some aftershave Pinot perfume, dry and quite sustaining palate has a sense of purpose and the acidity feels right too.