19 Apr HIGH REV FREEMAN PROSECCO 2016

INDAILY.COM.AU By Philip White

‘If this wine’s pretty pale straw meadow aromas and delicate waft of honeydew melon oozed from a flute of the sparkling wine made in that part of France they call Champagne you’d be happily paying at least three times this price, so that’s a dollop more incentive if this fetching bouquet doesn’t suck you in far enough.

It’s a husky, freckled sort of a blonde. In keeping with that, the wine has a gentle pale flesh, inbuilt deliberately by fermenting half the assemblage in barrels and keeping that wine on yeast lees for regular stirring. So you get comforting texture made more reassuring with a barely-detectable sweetness, delivered in a slightly prickly, petillant fizz that dances right bonnie to a bagatelle of crunchy almond biscotti. I imagine my Ferrari ticking impatiently outside when I drink this.’

10 Apr PROSECCO 2016 TICKLES PALATES

HUONHOOKE.COM By Huon Hooke

‘Light straw hue; nutty, toasted-almond aromas – some barrel fermentation nuances apparent. The palate is rich and still quite restrained, but there is a tickle of sweetness, as well as barrel-induced richness and very good flavour. The wine is balanced, soft and finishes fairly dry, with some persistence. A good example of Prosecco.’