Wine Reviews and Awards

Top Drops - Macedon LD NV Brut Cuvée VI, Macedon NV Brut Cuvee XI and Macedon NV Brut Rosé reviewed in the Canberra Times - Feb 4 2007

Chris Shanahan  Canberra Times

Hanging Rock Rosé Brut $27, Cuvée XI $49, LD Cuvée VI $110

Hanging Rock’s sparkling wines are unique and sit at the very tip of Australia’s quality pyramid.

Quality begins in a now mature, south-facing vineyard rising from 650 metres above sea level to 700 metres on the slopes of the Jim Jim hill.

This extremely cool site (too cool to grow table wine) produces the intense flavour, high acid pinot noir and chardonnay essential in making top notch bubblies.

The wines from these superb grapes flourish in the long journey from vineyard to bottle, (see main story), to emerge as bubblies of unique complexity.

They possess great freshness and beautiful fruit flavour as well as a patina of characters derived from prolonged cask and bottle ageing.