2007 Stefano Lubiana Grande Vintage Brut

Stefano Lubiana

Australia / Derwent Valley / Stefano Lubiana

Variety: 60% Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir
Vineyard blocks: 100% estate grown, single vineyard
Geology: Mix of two terriors, grey gravelly loams over clay and red loam over gravel
Vineyard management: Organic in conversion to biodynamic
Winemaking notes: Full MLF. Méthode traditionelle, seven years on lees & nine months on cork pre-release. Disgorged February 2015.
Wine notes: Our 2007 Grande Vintage is the 9th release in the 22 years we have been making sparkling. Our grande vintage wines are made to show off the vintage in which they grew, selecting the best parcels of fruit to give freshness, elegance, balance and intensity. Only made in the best years, they are drier and more refined than our NV and are made entirely from the one vintage.
Seamlessly crafted, showing exceptional purity and approachability, a rich but poised palate singing with white peach and brioche with notes of dry hay lingering seamlessly though the dry finish. It's a wine of tremendous personality and sophistication, demonstrating again that Stefano Lubiana creates some of the most exciting sparkling wines from the southern hemisphere.

February, 2016

Huon Hooke

Sydney Morning Herald

95 points

The bouquet is bready, with hints of almond pastries, toast and abundant pinot character. It’s crisp and tangy on the palate with acidity and a touch of sweet baked apple. Delicious.

May, 2016

Tyson Stelzer

Australian Sparkling Report 2016

94 points

A runner-up in the best sparkling wine of the year over $50 category of Tyson Stelzer's Australian Sparkling Report 2016

At almost a decade of age, after seven years on lees followed by a year on cork, this is a particularly toasty, nutty cuvée of medium straw yellow hue. It’s beautifully creamy in texture, laced with spice and even a hint of early tertiary complexity in wisps of pipe smoke. A long finish is sustained by well integrated Tasmanian acidity.

August, 2015

Mike Bennie

The Wine Front

93 points

New release here, I believe. Stefano Lubiana farms biodynamically. Vintage Tasmanian sparkling is increasingly captivating and excellent. Another compelling argument in a bottle here.
Complex sparkling wine scents with sweet stone fruit, candied citrus, floral notes, some patisserie whiffs. Rich perfume but still bright and fresh. Big attack of flavour set to a foamy, bright, fine beaded wine. Vibrant, crisp, appley; lingers with a slick of sweetness but there’s plenty of chalky acid to cut through the wine. Wine feels buoyant and brisk. Quite delicious actually, and effortless drinking. Touch of class.

April, 2016

Max Allen

Gourmet Traveller WINE

This sensational sparkling has already spent quite a while in the cellar - ageing for seven years on its yeast lees, then a couple more years under cork after disgorging - and has developed wonderful complexity as a result. Flavours of baked bread, cream crackers and grilled nuts weave in and out of the candied citrus and white nectarine fruit. But it'll only become richer, more complex and more delicious over at least the next five years.

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About Stefano Lubiana

Stefano Lubiana's sought-after wines are the result of a passionate quest for perfection, detail and uniqueness. Steve and Monique Lubiana’s approach focuses on organic principals, with innovative use of barrel and whole-bunch fermentation and wild yeasts to handcraft a distinctive range of wines. Located at Granton in the Derwent Valley, 20km north of Hobart and overlooking the spectacular tidal estuary of the Derwent River, the winery boasts a family winemaking legacy of more than 200 years. Certified biodynamic — Tasmania’s first

About

Steve Lubiana has always been surrounded by vines or wines. He was born in Melbourne, brought up in the Riverland and then settled in Tasmania. Over 25 years of winemaking in Granton he has developed the enviable reputation as one of the most innovative and progressive winemakers in Tasmania.
He and wife Monique started their vineyard with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir back in 1991 and through the years have added Pinot Gris, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc and Merlot. Their devotion to biodynamic practices in the vineyard gives them the ideal fruit to work with in their modern, gravity-fed winery.