Madeline Alice Vintage Blanc de Noir Piccadilly Valley 2016

This Vintage ‘Méthode Champenoise’, was bottle fermented and then aged on lees for five full years before disgorging, dosage and release. Made from Piccadilly Valley Pinot Noir in the Adelaide Hills, this limited release is made to the highest standard to deliver a most complex and sophisticated style of sparkling wine.

Graceful and refined, the 2016 Madeline Alice Blanc de Noir (meaning white from black) is crafted entirely from Pinot Noir. Fruit from the Piccadilly Valley was hand-picked, chilled in a cool room then whole bunch pressed into older French oak barriques for the alcoholic fermentation. The ‘base wine’ was then stored in a stainless-steel tank until February 2017, when it underwent ‘tirage’ (bottled with a little sugar and yeast added), the yeast fermenting the sugar, in turn creating the bubbles in the wine. It was then aged on yeast lees in cold store for five years, creating added complexity before riddling in February 2022. Disgorging followed on 15th March ahead of it’s inaugural release on 1st April 2022.