Vintage
2022
ABV
12%
Wine Type
Rosé
Wine Style
Sparkling
Wine Description
We’re never shy of proclaiming our love of Aglianico, and rose…. and sparkling wine for that matter, so here is our love child of these passions; Chalmers Col Fondo, a sparkling Aglianico Rosato complete with the lees in the bottle.
What is Col Fondo? Col Fondo is unfiltered sparkling wine and it’s cloudy with the lees left in the bottle. With its second fermentation occurring in the bottle, similar to Champagne, the result is something drier and more savoury, and typically a terroir-driven wine which can be a little funky and pleasantly drying with no dosage. No funk here though. In the bottle you’ll find freshly squeezed cloudy pink grapefruit in colour, attractive, red-fruited perfume, tart yet moreish with lots of zip and texture on the palate. Fine fizz with a deliciousness that screams ‘pour me another glass’.
Accolades
93 Points - Campbell Mattinson (Halliday Wine Companion)
Delicious strawberry and cream flavours quickly turn savoury and dry. This is simultaneously fresh, fizzy, racy and well flavoured. There's a fair amount of spicy, wheat funk to the aroma and plenty of clean but flamboyant flavour to the palate. Serious fun; fun serious.
