Champagne & Sparkling Wines

Akarua Brut NV is a fresh aperitif style with floral perfumes and savoury bread dough aromas. With lovely balance and complexity, the palate is clean, has a creamy middle and a long, crisp finish.

The Akarua Ros� Brut NV is a wine of character blended from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. It has a vibrant pink red hue and hints of strawberry aromas as well as complex nutty and yeasty notes. The palate has a strong Pinot Noir influence, a lovely creamy mid-palate and a long savoury, brut finish.

A pale yellow hue with a moderately intense yet complex nose. The sweet pastry, biscuit and orchard fruit notes are followed and enhanced by hints of citrus, white flowers and fresh butter. The initial taste is clean, and the finish is crisp and long with a slight mineral undertone. Superb complexity that combines young aromas with notes gained through maturation in cellars. A great Champagne for…

The initial aroma boasts ripe strawberries, redcurrants and fresh peonies. Wheat, biscuit and creme fraiche notes are also detectable, as are hints of more roasted flavours. There is real harmony to this wine, bolstered by fine acidity, light tannin notes and soft fruitiness. This is a classically delicate and gourmet rose Champagne, with great structure and an attractive character.

The nose is very powerful, dominated by aromas of fruits in pastry, stewed apricot, with frank notes of sugared almond. Slight notes of pepper and aniseed. On the palate, the feeling is very ample and long, with remaining pastry feeling, ending on a spicy note.

Ed Carr, the man behind Arras, has been making sparkling wines in Australia since 1986 and for the Hardy's group since 1994. He was one of the first winemakers to see the potential Tasmanian fruit had for producing world class sparkling wine and has been producing Arras solely with Tasmanian fruit since the 1998 vintage. Much to the horror of the accountants, however, he has insisted on ageing the…

Salmon pink in colour, with a lively and persistent fine bead, the 2005 vintage displays enticing aromas of fresh red berry fruits, along with brioche-like yeast, nougat and exotic spices. Bright and fresh strawberry fruit dominate the initial flavour rush which gives way to complex secondary characters of truffle and yeast extract. This wine has great structural elegance with an impeccable balanc…

Salmon pink in colour, with a lively and persistent fine bead, the 2005 vintage displays enticing aromas of fresh red berry fruits, along with brioche-like yeast, nougat and exotic spices. Bright and fresh strawberry fruit dominate the initial flavour rush which gives way to complex secondary characters of truffle and yeast extract. This wine has great structural elegance with an impeccable balanc…

Pale gold in colour with a fine mousse, the wine is aromatic on the nose. On the palate, it is well balanced and shows great finesse and complexity. Pinot Noir gives the wine richness and a long finish while Chardonnay, from the finest soils of the C�te des Blancs, adds delicacy, liveliness and freshness. Pinot Meunier, mainly from the Marne Valley, gives the wine an appealing fruitiness and round…

Ayala Rose demonstrates a dazzling light cherry center with a sensitive copper flicker, upgraded by an excellent accessory of fine and enduring bubbles. On the nose, the wine uncovers an enticing bunch of red natural fruits (strawberries, raspberries, a hint of cassis) improved by the freshness and the artfulness conveyed by the high extent of Chardonnay. On the sense of taste, Rose Majeur is vino…

Characteristically pale and elegant with fine mousse and good persistence. The palate boasts soft, delicate red fruit flavours leading to a crisp, dry and focused finish.

Baron De Villeboerg, Brut, NV

Fruity, red fruits, cherries, citrus fruits, slights spicy notes of mint, thyme and tomato leaves, elegantly floral

Bel Star, Prosecco, NV

Crisp, deliciously frothy and filled with ripe apple and citrus fruit character, this is the model of a perfect Prosecco.

It has a pale, lively and persistent mousse; its perlage is fine and continuous. It is yellow in colour, with marked greenish reflections. The bouquet is inviting, with rich notes of white flowers and ripe fruit, with subtle hints of vanilla. The aromas follow through on to the palate. Fine, elegant and beautifully balanced.

It has a pale, lively and persistent mousse; its perlage is fine and continuous. It is yellow in colour, with marked greenish reflections. The bouquet is inviting, with rich notes of white flowers and ripe fruit, with subtle hints of vanilla. The aromas follow through on to the palate. Fine, elegant and beautifully balanced.

It has a pale, lively and persistent mousse; its perlage is fine and continuous. It is yellow in colour, with marked greenish reflections. The bouquet is inviting, with rich notes of white flowers and ripe fruit, with subtle hints of vanilla. The aromas follow through on to the palate. Fine, elegant and beautifully balanced.

Pale onion skin pink in colour, with a fine mousse of persistent bubbles. Perfumes of wild strawberries, citrus fruit, golden delicious apples and rose petals. Fresh and dry on the palate, with undertones of blackcurrants and sweet almonds, this wine is silky and elegant and finishes long.

Deep straw yellow in colour, a fine mousse and rich texture. Complex aromas of hawthorn, wormwood and bay leaves, this wine is fresh and bone dry on the palate. Distinguished notes of fruit and incense, this wine is smooth and refined, with a long, persistent finis

The mousse is persistent and creamy; the perlage is extremely fine. It has a straw yellow colour with faint golden highlights and reveals an intense, attractive and complex bouquet, remeniscent of peach blossom, honey and hazelnuts. A very feminine, gentle and graceful wine. It is soft and delicate, and elegantly refined.

This has a really nice, bright, summery style on the nose, and a deeper quality of fruit, minerally with a crystalline white character. A lovely weight on the palate, broader, very fresh and yet with some good depth and minerals as on the nose. A really good style.

This has a really nice, bright, summery style on the nose, and a deeper quality of fruit, minerally with a crystalline white character. A lovely weight on the palate, broader, very fresh and yet with some good depth and minerals as on the nose. A really good style.

This has a really nice, bright, summery style on the nose, and a deeper quality of fruit, minerally with a crystalline white character. A lovely weight on the palate, broader, very fresh and yet with some good depth and minerals as on the nose. A really good style.