Howard Park Petit Jeté NV

The entire Jeté range offers excellent fizz with prices to match. This is full of white peach and citrus, ginger spice and yeasty bread-biscuit flavours. It has some complexity, it’s refreshing, and it finishes rather zingy and super dry. Nice one.

Light to medium colour, bright yellow, with a good collar of foam. The aroma is fresh and clean, showing some subtle dried fruit and dried herb notes and the palate soft and full, round and ample with generosity and attractive texture, if not great complexity. It finishes clean, dry and refreshing. Lovely wine.

This is a nicely cut sparkling wine with fresh, bright lemon and stone-fruit aromas and flavours, delivering much in the way of drinkable appeal.

I do like a BdB style. Richness of honeycomb, brioche and bread crust with gun flint, whipped cream, spiced warm apple and peachy stone fruit. Very good structure. Harmony between textural elements, a well formed mid palate with expressive mousse and keen acidity through the tail. Fine value.”

If you were going to pick a region to make super Blanc de Blancs sparkling wine then the Great Southern would have to be one of your go to regions thanks to its mix of both a cool climate and beautifully pristine environment which give superb purity of Chardonnay fruit. Mid straw in colour with a dusting of gold, it opens with beautifully elegant and precise aromas, from nectarine to florals and citrus well balanced with just cooked pastry bottle age influences. The palate is then bright, fresh and vibrant with a light, silky touch and crisp acid backbone before opening up to a soft finish accented by touches of buttered toast. A delicious aperitif, at any time of the day.

Howard Park Wines are West Australia’s most ambitious sparkling winemaker. They have 4 wines in the Jeté range – 2 NV blancs, an NV rosé, and a vintage. Petit Jeté is their lightest wine. A blanc de blancs made from 100% chardonnay from Pemberton and Mount Barker in the cool south west. It’s early picked to capture crisp, bright and chalky fallouts. 2018 is the core vintage but other seasons are blended for complexity and consistency. More racy and less biscuity than non-vintage Champagne. Crack it open at your next celebration or enjoy with oysters or cream cheese.”

Blanc de blancs made from 100% chardonnay. Complex notes of blanched almonds, shortcrust pastry, lemons, dried apples and sea shells. It’s elegant and fresh with fine bubbles and vibrant acidity. Dry.

This is a blanc de blancs style made from 100% chardonnay. Has a nice crunchy lemon rind and citrus aroma that rolls with distinctive biscuit bready nuances. The palate is light and crisp with a very complete and pleasing mouth feel. There is texture but there is a fine linear feel that makes it such a refined elegant wine.