No: 52 Kreglinger Vintage Brut 2004

Having given myself a month off to move house, settle in and get to grips with life in Tassie, it would be rude of me not to storm back with a Tasmanian beauty. For the first time in a long time I was able to use the phrase "I've not been here for years" when arriving at Pipers Brook which shares its driveway with another great Tasmanian sparkling wine, Jansz.

Skipping over the opportunity for a gossip with Maxine, the lovely Cellar door manager at Jansz, I wound my way through the vineyard to the Pipers Brook Cellar Door. Kreglinger are a Belgian company which now own the company and produce some very stylish bubbles and a fairly horrible website.

Luckily the smarts are in the winemaking department who produce this delicious sparkler. Pale lemon in appearance and toasty, ripe tropical fruit flavours on the  nose alongside stone fruits, apple and lemon. A blend of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir the wine is yeasty and rich yet lively in the mouth with a youthful fresh lemon and apple flavour which belies its years.

The Kreglinger Vintage Brut 2004 is intense, complex and interesting, alongside the obvious maturity is a lean and elegant acidity and ripe, fresh fruits. It's always nice to see a big juggernaut of a company making wines like this and getting it so very right.