One of Australia's principal Pinot Chardonnay Meuniere Cuvée, from fruit grown to superior vineyards at Pipers Brook, an area acknowledged as the premiere source of sparkling wine in Australia. Ever since debut, Clover Hill has impressed both the local and international industry press with its uncompromising quality and distinguished styling. Rich autolysis and wonderful biscuit characters, structure and finesse, creamy layers of Chardonnay fruit are integrated beautifully with the sherbet, bread and cherry Pinot characters.

A multi vintage cuvee of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Meunier, assembled exclusively from parcels picked off Clover Hill's estate vineyards at Pipers Brook. Fermented in it's own bottle and aged on yeast lees for at least two years, infusing the intensity of an extravagant elevage while capturing the vivacity of Pipers River fruit, a masterful construct of remarkable structure and finesse. Subtly complex, Cuvee Tasmania is characterised by rich, creamy layers of Chardonnay opulence, integrating beautifully with the cherry sherbet chic of Pinot Noir.

A rich cépage of Pinot Noir and Meuniere, sourced exclusively from the elite Clover Hill Vineyard at Pipers River, the nation's most prestigious sparkling wine. In 1986, on the site of an old dairy farm, the magnificent Clover Hill property was planted to vine by the Goelet family, with a view to articulating the final word in Australian sparkling. Since inaugural vintage in 1991, Clover Hill has earned an international reputation for its uncompromising elegance, finesse and eloquent Tasmanian styling.

Clover Hill's been producing pure varietal sparkling Chardonnay for many years. Assembled from a selection of elite Cuvees, matured on yeast lees for four years, followed by twelve months of ageing under cork prior to release. Disgorged with an addition of reserve wine, the doseage is prepared from components of Clover Hill reposing in oaken foudres. Clover Hill is the essential Australian Blanc de Blanc sparkling with a crisp profile of fruit, exceptional length and lasting flavours.

The handsome manors of Clarence House were built at the very epicentre of Hobart's colonial market gardens, upon the fertile foothills of Meehan Ranges. The unspoiled viticultures here ripen a magnificent harvest of Sauvignon Blanc, more flavourful than her northern siblings on the mainland, bristling with aromatic fruits and layered with luscious textures. Sauvignon Blanc was amongst the first plantings here, the vines are now well into maturity. Clarence House makes a style that's plush with lemon lychee characters, underpinned by the food friendly savouryness of green vegetable, thistle and pea.

Always mindful of the eloquence that defines Pinot Noir as the most articulate of varietals, Clarence House set aside their most exceptional parcels for an estate Reserve. Assembled from a palette of clones 777, 114 and MV6, Pommard and Abel, Clarence place their finest rows of harvest into a variety of oak barrels, designed to polish the excellence of each precious parcel of fruit. The final accord is designed to coalesce the complexity into a seamless expression of a truly wonderful wine, all the stalky cherryness, barnyard and nutty apple characters of a magnificent Pinot Noir mesoclime.

A scrupulous cull of the most exquisite parcels, a regimen of traditional burgundian methods and extended term in an extravagant selection of the finest French oak. Clarence House established superior clones Chardonnay to an exquisite terroir of undulating northeast slopes, awakened by the warmth of early morning sunlight, sheltered from the harsh impact of late afternoon heat. The Chardonnay grown here speaks of propitious Jurassic soils and invigorating maritime winds, infused by the abundance of eucalypt and verdant green, articulate of its complex mineral provenance, chiselled and refined.

Pinot Noir was uppermost in mind when the Kilpatricks established vines at Clarence House in 1993. There are few places in the world, so predisposed to this most fickle of varietals, as the languid, temperate climes of southern Tasmania. The foothills of Meehan Ranges near Hobart are a place of garrulous soils and exhilerating ripening seasons. A mixture of clones 114, 115, 667, 777, MV6, Abel and Pommard are treated to a Burgundian style of vinification, its rich cherry flavours, pretty florals and savoury rhubarb characters, draped in a gentle robe of plush, velvetine tannins.

There will only ever be sixteen hectares of vine at Clarence House, the boundaries of the estate are well defined, whatever grows here will always be of great exclusivity, the finest possible fruit, limited in yield. Pinot Blanc only just made the final cut of remaining parcels, never originally planned for Pinot Blanc, it was sanctioned after an impassioned persuasion by a savvy grower. Effulgent with brightly lit fruit characters, apples and pear, pine nuts, almond and spice, Clarence fashion their Pinot Blanc into an intensely food friendly style, resolving on a dry, textural finish, perfect with partridge, paella or pork.

Chardonnay performs so well at Clarence House, that precious blocks were set aside for a second planting of the courtly varietal. The brisk maritime climes of Hobart encourage a savoury, saline style of Chardonnay, weighty with all the ripe orchard fruit flavours yet awash with the scents of the sea, oyster shell, tradewind and fragrant old spice. Treated to a traditional burgundesque style of ferments and élevage, Clarence House frame their Chardonnay with just the right amount of fine French oak, made for matching alongside fruits de mer, frogs au feuilleté and all fancy French fare.

So confident are the directors at Chandon, in the skill and dedication of their winemaking and viticultural teams, they have granted license for their artisanal staff to assume the initiative and to construct special editions, to be crafted in limited quantities and treated to an extended term of age. Les Trois Rosé was made in vintage 2010, from superior harvests of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, grown to elite sites in Tasmania, Upper Yarra Valley and the Whitlands Plateau. At once delicate and powerful, endowed with the allure and irresistible charm of sparkling Rosé.

The team at Bream Creek are great fans of esoteric European wine styles and have introduced the avant garde Schönburger varietal to the southern hemisphere. I hear you ask, Schönburger? A rare German red grape, more commonly grown in England, Schönburger is a hybrid of Pinot Noir and another curious grape developed by I Birovano, itself a hybrid of Chasselas and Muscat Hamburg. An appealing, rich nose with ripe fig, rose petal and subtle tropical fruit, the palate is full and rich, exhibiting a lovely silkiness with a refreshing, clean finish.

Bream Creek sits at the heart of a coastal community that's well known for it's artisans, overlooking the site where Abel Tasman first landed in 1642. Bream Creek excel at Sauvignon Blanc, having claimed multiple awards at conspicuous wine tasteoffs in Tasmania as well as prestigious accolades at national competitions. The classic and definitive Sauvignon Blanc style with aromas of citrus, gooseberry and hints of tropical fruit. A balanced wine offering a well structured, full flavoured and persistent palate, pleasant texture and refreshing finish.

Bream Creek have been producing fine Riesling wines since the original plantings went into the ground at Marion Bay during the early 1970s. The vines are now forty years of age and produce firmly structured Rieslings of character and finesse. Bream Creek have enjoyed considerable success over the years, largely due to the very long, mild growing season, the strength of the estate's viticultural team and the influence of vine age. Unlike many of its sibling Tasmanian Rieslings, a remarkable wine that offers some distinctly old world European qualities.

A prolific award winner on the national wine show circuit, by virtue of a profound palate in the style of the old world's great Pinot Noir. A representation of great finesse, extremely limited in supply, very few barrels are ever bottled in line with the estate's policy of only releasing those parcels worthy of the Reserve label. Bream Creek is a powerful Pinot Noir with firm structure and enormous complexity. More savoury than fruit in style, the nose shows pepper, dried herbs and earth characters. The palate is powerful with great length and lovely fine grained tannins.

Bream Creek is one of Australia's southernmost vineyards, one of the first commercialy operated sites in Tasmania. Crop yields are kept very modest, the focus being on harvests of small berries clustered into small bunches of fruit. Painstaking efforts achieve the essential cool climate Pinot Noir, grown to older vines in the lower latitudes of Tasmania's southeast. Such idyllic growing conditions deliver outstanding quality grapes which are vinified by an artisanal team into an elegant, velvety Pinot Noir with alluring aromatics and a profound, slowly ripened palate.

The focus at Bream Creek is on painstakingly managing vines by hand to yield small quantities of pristine fruit for the vinification of classic cool climate Tasmanian wines. Gewürtztraminer loves the cold. Slow ripening gives berries time to develop stimulating flavours and spicey fruit characters.

Bream Creek are owned and operated by one of Tasmania's leading viticulturalists. The hand managed vines are grown to salubrious soils on one of the most spectacular coastal locations in Tasmania. The estate's focus is to produce small quantities of pristine fruit which can be vinified into wines which capitalise on the stunning flavours that originate from predominantly old vines. The stirling efforts of Bream Creek are crafted to drink beautifully on release. Chardonnay is treated to partial malolactic fermentation and lees stirring to achieve texture and elegance.

One of Tasmania's most praiseworthy efforts, Bay of Fires expresses fully the exceptional quality of fruit grown to superior vineyards, nurtured exclusively for the production of world class sparkling wines which exhibit classically structured palates and the most splendid texture. A top shelf effort made to true Methode Traditionelle, Bay of Fires is reverently crafted by the stars of the Hardy winemaking team, rested for years on lees sediment, to develop a luxurious mouthfeel and infuse the wine with elegance, rich fruit character and layers of complexity.

The unique weather and topography of Tasmania form microclimes more closely resembling the classic winegrowing regions of the old world. Hardy Wines have long taken great interest in the vineyards of Tasmania, wonderful places of arcadian splendour which yield princely harvests of the cleanest cold climate Sauvignon Blanc. Bay Of Fires are renowned for their splendid structure, elegance and finesse, exquisitely balanced wines of luscious mineral complexity and persistence of flavour. The classic Sauvignon Blanc of kiwi, lychee and passionfruit, marked by crisp textures and fine acid length.

Bay of Fires are artfully crafted to achieve the velvety seamlessness adored by true Pinot files. The small but highly accomplished winemaking team are driven by a philosophy to capture and retain a tight weave of the distinctive and intense fruit expressions from individual vineyards, preserved within the very bottle. After many years developing the finest vineyards across the length and breadth of the apple isle's premiere viticultural precincts, Bay Of Fires can collate parcels from the choicest sites, from which to assemble a spectacular construct of Tasmanian Pinot Noir.

Rose petals, lychee and turkish delights, pears to the palate, lanolin, calico and a supple squeeze of lemon spice, this is the Schonburger which claimed Winestate's Alternative White Varietal of Year, no mean feat for a tiny Tasmanian. The allure and charm of such a precocious varietal is formed in the vineyard, an abundance of daily sunshine within a cooler clime, develops articulate fruit esters while allowing the extra time to bloom into complete ripeness. Macerations and whole bunch vinifications, infuse the wine with luscious fruit flavours, crisp textures and provocative aromatics.

A bravely accoutred style, from Barringwood's favourite plantings of Pinot Noir, dressed in bright cherry baubles and raspberry robes, framed by curls of cinnamon sasafras oak, underpinned by a bustle of soft taffeta tannins. It's all little vineyard fruit, just a small hectarage of fancy clone Pinot, passionately nurtured by locals born and bred, made to an old fashioned regimen of tranquil winemaking. A measure of whole bunch clusters and extended term in fine French oak, contribute character and complexity to a prepossessing palate of persimmon, plumcot and peacock tails.

From a picturesque planting of Pinot Noir at Lower Barrington, overlooking Don Valley towards mighty Bass Strait, within the maritime crotch of Tasmania's north. At 276 metres above the sea, vines enjoy a perfectly mild growing season, the longest days of sunshine on the apple isle, followed by a cool maritime autumn which infuses grapes with a sensational level of velvetine richness. Expressing winsome violets and vanilla, cherries and chai, giving way to earthy underbrush, elegantly structured, its brightly lit fruit and gentle tannins, seasoned by dustings of savoury spice.

Grown to the balmy coastal climes of our great southern land, burnished by the extended northern sunshine and invigorated by the sobering winds off balmy Bass Strait. The moreishly rich grapefruit style, vinified from the exclusively free run pressings for pure pristine opulence, barrel fermented in lovely French oak and treated to the extravagance of lees stirring malolactic. Brilliantly proportioned of pineapple and pith, sherbet and citrus, its magnificent length of lime curd sweetness and oak influenced mineral, resolving on an awesome, seaspray oyster shell finish.

There are very few vineyards which take sparkling wine so seriously as to plant Pinot Meunier, the third grape variety in the holy trinity of the noble Methode Champenoise. Fruit is selectively whole bunch pressed for creamyness and complexity, mollified by malolactic, stirred for palate richness and filled to sediments bottle for three full years yeast lees maturation. Brimming with brioche, apricots and apple flan, its largess of indulgent fruit charactors and beguling perfumes, undulate and evolve along a long, fine bead of crunchy stonefruit flavours, creme fondant and crisp minerality.

Recently Disgorged, in the opulently Methode Traditionelle way, allowing extended time on sedimentery yeast lees for the maximum measure of flavour development and textural richness. Selection of grapes is at the core of Barringwood RD, the harvest is closely scrutinised for inclusion of nothing but the best fruit, whole bunch pressed, softened by the magic of malo and treated to the ardors of stirring battonage before bottling, remuage and the extravagance of five years age. A sensational bead releases florals, seaspray and biscuit, exceptional effervescence, suffused with wondrous complexity.

The House of Arras make the most sophisticated sparkling Rose style, a magnificent mousse of salmon hued indulgence, achieved through a scrupulous selection of harvests, an uncompromising approach to vinification and extended term of bottle age on sedimentery yeast lees. The fragrant red fruits of Pinot Noir dominate, the layered complexity of applejack, rhubarb and bakers spice, all supported by a juicy orchard acidity, a modest frame of flattering tannins and the toothsome creamyness of liqueur expedition dosage.

Arras Grand Vintage is a wine of outstanding peerage, fashioned from the fruit of superior sites, enriched by the great complexity of character that follows six years tirage. A tapestry of flavours and aromatics suspended within an elegant mousse, Arras is artisanaly crafted from the noble Chardonnay and Pinot Noir to true Methode traditionelle. After several years resting on lees and an extended bottle maturation, this peerless wine from Tasmania's finest vineyards, carries the distinction of a world class, effervescent Cuvée.

The first of its kind, a salient example demonstrating the values of meticulous winemaking and a commitment to extended tirage maturation. Crafted in what was to eventually become the established Arras housestyle, employing the best vinification and viticultural methods to achieve wine of the highest quality. Following ten years tirage, EJ Carr Late Disgorged presents the original 1998 Arras in a new guise, a cuvee filled with layers of complexity and intensity. EJ Carr displays all the elegance, power and vibrancy of world class sparkling wine.

The House of Arras is built on the exceptional quality of fruit grown to the most superlative cold climate Tasmanian vineyards and an uncompromising standard of vinification techniques mastered over decades. Nothing less than the pinnacle of artisanal Australian sparkling winemaking is permitted to be bottled behind the Arras label. Slowly tiraged for a period of no fewer than five years, Brut Elite shows great complexity from the extended aging while exhibiting a brightness of fruit and structural elegance representative of truly world class sparkling wine.

The House of Arras can call on the most exceptional Tasmanian harvests, befitting the highest standards of Methode traditionnelle. A priceless endowment of vineyards which were established on the merit of terroir and clime, growing conditions which are uncannily similar to the spiritual home in the old world. Beautifully poised, a well structured and elegant style of immense complexity and persistence, nectarines and jonagold, the fruit of seven years tirage, the opulence of truffles and brioche, roman nougat, amaretti and exotic spice.