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This wine's an award winner...
This wine is kinder to the planet
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About the wine
A tantalising Tassie tickle for your tongue!
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100% Tamar Valley. The fruit is pristine - there was a lot of vineyard sampling to get the pick date right! Pressed in whole bunches an hour or two after harvest, there was no need to add sulphur. But fermenting a wine twice (to get bubbles) is nerve-wracking. The Feldheims sang to the yeast culture for a week to make sure it was growing strongly!
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The delicious Vintage 2021 smells of rose Turkish delight upon layers of nutty brioche bun. The richness and depth of strawberry and nougat leads to a crispness and succulent acidity that refreshes and coaxes a smile with each sip.
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Its hard to find a great Tasmanian-made sparkling with 100% pure Tassie fruit like this for less than $30. Actually its unheard of. Each bottle has been cradled and hand-disgorged by David and Cynthia. Hard work but so rewarding!
Best before
Sparkling wine will age beautifully on its cork bringing more complexity to the wine and also savouriness. However, sparkling wine is a wine that should be enjoyed in the moment and if that moment is NOW then ageing is secondary.!
Serving advice
Always serve chilled and in nice clean glasses so that the bubbles are free to stream. Sometimes with sparklings dirty glassware can inhibit a good flow of bubbles, and also change the mouthfeel of the wine. Open it with friends, sunsets, good food, and for celebration , commiseration or just for fun!! Also sparkling can blow its top if its been shaken or opened too warm, so we always recommend to NOT take of the musket (or wire as its known in Australia) which will give you grip as you twist the bottle and allow the cork to come off slowly. UNLESS OF COURSE YOU HAVE JUST WON A BIG RACE IN A RED RACING CAR!! then let it go everywhere and grab another bottle!!
Food match
The toastiness of this years 2021 La Soiree lends itself to freshly shucked oysters which are back in abundance here in Tasmania! the salinity of the freshness of the sea water goes beautifully with the lemon curd and savouriness of the wine.
Contains sulphites
Always check the label
Australia
Tasmania
Pinot noir
Sparkling
12.2% ABV
75cl
Vegan
Vegetarian
Fairtrade
Wine profile
Meet the winemaker - Cynthea & David Feldheim
This canny couple from the Tamar Valley has captivated Angels with their Gypsy Caravan offerings of tiny volume, hand-made deliciousness. The name reflects freedom, the ‘wild’ way the wines are made and the close relationship they have with this pristine place.
Cynthea has been making wine magic for 23 years. Bitten by the wine bug when her parents moved from San Francisco to Tassie and planted their own vineyard, she ended up studying winemaking and wine marketing. Then the world became her vinous oyster!
It’s hard to find great Tasmanian wines by little family winemakers like these outside of cellar doors and fancy restaurants. The Feldheim's exclusive access to parcels of lovingly tended fruit from mature vines means their Tamar Valley tipples are the next level in quality and value. Angel support has been so powerful, they’ve been able to take over the family vineyard - the first Tasmanian cellar door - and return it to its former glory.
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