Terrible website aside...http://kreglingerwineestates.com/ I had to have two goes at this wine before something tasty cropped up. The first bottle I tried was at best tedious, dumb is the technical term and it was thus....The second, however, was far more interesting, complex and a little bit more like what you would expect from Tasmanian sparkling wine.
Kreglinger are Jansz's neighbours up on the east side of the Tamar Valley in the Pipers River area and are part of the same stable as Pipers Brook and Ninth Island. The Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes for this sparkler come from the specially assigned Kreglinger vineyard and are hand picked and whole bunch pressed to produce around 450-550 litres per tonne.
The base wines are fermented in barrel and stainless steel, a small percentage was put aside to age on the lees, blended and then put into bottle after tirage to develop further.
At almost eight years old the wine shows the level of maturity you would expect with mushroom, yeast and savoury characteristics. Although the primary fruit flavours have begun to wane they have been replaced with baked apples, candied peel, almonds and fresh bread.
This is a competent and well put together wine which shows a nicely structured maturity although lacking a little finesse. As a recommendation I would say stuff a leg of pork, roast it serve with apple sauce, roasties and a bottle of this and it would turn your average Sunday lunch into something a little special.
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