Producer Tasting Notes 

This is the seventh release of our DAOSA Natural Réserve from our Piccadilly Valley vineyards. The wine is a Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier blend, made following the principles of our Method ClassicTM. The wine exhibits classic Pinot Noir characters with subtle strawberry notes, and expressive Chardonnay fruit on the middle palate. It is tempered by a fine bead, with a beautiful complexity and length from the Réserve wines. A classic example of Australian sparkling wine, made in the traditional method.

About the Winemaking 

DAOSA is made following the Méthode Traditionnelle (Method ClassicTM) used in the Champagne region of France. Perfectly ripe Pinot Noir fruit for sparkling was handharvested in March 2022. The fruit was whole bunch pressed, retaining only 600L per tonne of fruit pressed. This gave very fresh acidity, clean juice and good primary fruit characters prior to fermentation. The juice was fermented cool in stainless-steel tank. Once primary fermentation was complete, the wine went through malolactic fermentation in tank. Before tirage, the wine was blended (assemblage) with some 2020 and 2021 Réserve Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier (15% Réserve wines in the final blend) and aged in large old foudres without sulphur. The wine was then "tiraged" early October 2022 with the addition of yeast and sugar prior to bottling, to induce secondary fermentation in bottle. The resultant sparkling wine was aged on lees before disgorging, with first batch disgorging in April 2024

Pinot Noir (57%)

Chardonnay (35%) 

Pinot Meunier (8%)