OPINION
Sydney Morning Herald
Tuesday March 29, 2011
BIODYNAMIC BEAUTIESImporter Randall Pollard of Heart and Soil has begun bringing the biodynamic wines of Champagne Fleury into Australia. Based in Bar-sur-Aube, in the far south of the appellation, near Chablis, Jean-Sebastian Fleury's wines are not only biodynamic in a region famous for its high use of vineyard chemicals but his wines are very low in the common wine preservative, sulfur dioxide 50 to 60 parts per million, he says, while the law allows up to 180. The wines are excellent and well-priced: the regular non-vintage is a blanc de noirs ($75) and my favourite is the fragrant, pristine 2004 Cepages Blancs, which contains some pinot blanc as well as chardonnay. It's $96.WEBBER'S BEST YETSteve Webber of De Bortoli Yarra Valley is prone to bold statements. But when he declares a certain wine the best he's ever made (and he's made some beauties) you take note. And when he says the 2010 PHI Pinot Noir is not only the best pinot noir but the best wine he's made in the Yarra Valley, eyebrows shoot skywards. It will be released in July at $65 a bottle.
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