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2019 Ben Haines Blanc de Now Undisgorged Sparkling Pinot Noir

$60.00

Style

Not your classic Champagne. Or is it? Produced using the ancient French “Methode Ancestral”, bottle fermented, with the yeast lees kept in the bottle. Expect cloudiness and high levels of character and complexity.

Undisgorged Blanc de Noir produced with 100% Pinot Noir from a small single vineyard in Steels Creek, Yarra Valley. Very dry, yet balanced by a velour lees texture imparted from three years in contact with the lees in bottle.

Crystalline acidity woven throughout tart yet delicate apple and green strawberry fruits, fully integrated with autolytic characters of roasted nuts and shortbread. Lightly floral, with a pervasive streak of umami. 


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Not your classic Champagne. Or is it? Produced using the ancient French “Methode Ancestral”, bottle fermented, with the yeast lees kept in the bottle. Expect cloudiness and high levels of character and complexity.

Undisgorged Blanc de Noir produced with 100% Pinot Noir from a small single vineyard in Steels Creek, Yarra Valley. Very dry, yet balanced by a velour lees texture imparted from three years in contact with the lees in bottle.

Crystalline acidity woven throughout tart yet delicate apple and green strawberry fruits, fully integrated with autolytic characters of roasted nuts and shortbread. Lightly floral, with a pervasive streak of umami. 


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Distribution and wholesale

Style

Not your classic Champagne. Or is it? Produced using the ancient French “Methode Ancestral”, bottle fermented, with the yeast lees kept in the bottle. Expect cloudiness and high levels of character and complexity.

Undisgorged Blanc de Noir produced with 100% Pinot Noir from a small single vineyard in Steels Creek, Yarra Valley. Very dry, yet balanced by a velour lees texture imparted from three years in contact with the lees in bottle.

Crystalline acidity woven throughout tart yet delicate apple and green strawberry fruits, fully integrated with autolytic characters of roasted nuts and shortbread. Lightly floral, with a pervasive streak of umami. 


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Distribution and wholesale

 

Winemaking Notes

100 % Pinot Noir hand-picked and whole bunch pressed to neutral barrique barrels for fermentation and full MLF. Raised for 2 years on gross lees in full barrique barrels with zero added SO2. 
Tiraged in 2021 without any added SO2, then laid in the dark on lees for a further 3 years. Riddled, labelled and packed undisgorged in March 2024 for release. 

Origin

Steels Creek, Yarra Valley, Victoria
Nine One Six Vineyard
5 acres, 100% Pinot Noir, Mixed Clones
Practicing organic 
Planted in 1990’s, recovered from the 2009 fires, now reaching new heights of quality

Ingredients

Grapes
Natural/indigenous yeast
Zero added sulphites
11.0% abv

Artwork

Sophie La Maitre, AUS

Perth based Sophie La Maitre’s beautifully toned and textured paintings are centred in a deep fascination for the unremarkable and unnoticed. These abstract paintings reflect an intense engagement with the surroundings of daily life and express her appreciation of quietude.
A graduate of Edith Cowan University with Honours, Sophie has exhibited regularly in solo and group exhibitions. She has been selected for a number of awards, including the Joondalup Community Art Award and Ellenbrook Swan Art Award. She has also undertaken a number of residencies and her work is held in private collections across Australia.

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