Vintage Cellars Catalogue - 01/07-11/08/2020 (Page 18)

conquering the classics australian wine has come a long way since landing nurturing old-school styles with global success winemakers refocused on their wonderful old vine australian makers have shown their innovative flair by an eager audience he journey taken by the grape vine since it arrived in australia with the first fleet is and dead ends as well as soaring success though our earliest white settlers were from britain the vines they brought came from mainland europe winemaking were focused on replicating the likes of error has played a key role in tackling the wines of australian winemakers are innovative and resilient and today our iterations of the classics stand of screwcaps sealing that success rosé baby boomers kickstarted australia's rosé renaissance in the 1960s with many enticed by repurposed as romantic candle holders - and there challenged by blue nun liebfraumilch from germany that mateus rosé came from portugal made it more houghton cabernet rosé and stalwart rosé campaigner geoff merrill using the plentiful grenache as his base the bubble burst in the 1970s with simple sweet offerings like crackling rosé sinking the pink-drink ship sparkling the first serious australian sparkling wines were made in the late 19th century by migrant winemakers grapes of champagne - chardonnay and pinot noir the fact these were made using the classic méthode traditionelle certainly helped their quality year brian croser released his eponymous bubbles as chardonnay and pinot noir became more moved to cooler regions that mirrored the growing emerged as our 'sparkling isle' with top drops like clover hill and pirie standing proud against their benchmarks from champagne