Blanc de blancs Reviews
Cuisine November 2008
“The beautifully sited Summerhouse vineyard in Marlborough produces excellent wines. This elegant sparkler fits perfectly alongside the freshest shellfish. It has a quietly complex nose of soft red fruits and apple. Light cream and biscuit touches, and a herbal thread, gives delicious savouriness and it tastes harmonious, long and fine.”
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit 89 Points
The bouquet is elegant and fine displaying acacia, yeast and chalky mineral notes. It's beautifully textured on the palate with a creamy, rounded mouthfeel and nicely pitched acidity. A delicate and subtle style with lovely balance and a crisp dry finish.
Michael Cooper’s Buyer’s Guide to New Zealand Wines 2010
“Made from estate-grown Chardonnay and lees-aged for two years, this non vintage wine is attractively scented, lively and crisp, with citrusy, nutty, yeasty flavours, showing good complexity and intensity, and a dryish finish.”
Peter Saunders, Hospitality - Thirst
“A true blanc de blancs, firmly spined to stimulate tastes for dinner, (tastes as dry) an excellent chardonnay back-drop in the fruit and perfectly balanced. Another refreshing Marlborough sparkling, doing everything right. Serious enough to be interesting.”
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Summerhouse Blanc de blancs
Beautiful pale gold in appearance. A light floral perfume with lovely citrus and brioche notes. The palate is smooth and lively with lemon and apple flavours, a little yeastiness and a creamy finish.
The start of the harvest season is celebarted with the hand picking of Chardonnay grapes for the Blanc de blancs – the first fruit of the vintage.
Summerhouse’s Blanc de Blanc is 100% Chardonnay crafted from the fruit of the Clone 95 vines.
The hand harvested bunches were whole bunched pressed, and the juices chilled, settled and racked. The cool ferment occurred with specially selected yeasts. Using trational champagne making methods, the slow secondary, bubble producing ferment occurred in each individual bottle. The wine as then aged on the yeast lees for two years before disgorging.