Review: Daosa Piccadilly Valley Rosé 2021

I don’t drink much sparkling rosé, mainly because they often disappoint (and are more expensive). But there’s been a vein of tasty pink bubbles lately (like the Apogee), so maybe things are changing.

Anyway, I liked this Daosa Adelaide Hills fizz. Sure, it’s more table wine with bubbles than some light touch aperitif style, but it’s a proper mouthful of sparkling wine. Fermented and aged in old oak, it’s a serious pink wine with a pink label and lots of pink grapefruit flavour. It’s more salmon than pink-coloured, and as much strawberried as pink grapefruit, with a lovely creamy edge from barrel and lees that makes it round, generous and mouthfilling. It is lavish sparkling, if sometimes a bit too strawberried, but certainly well done and plenty complex.

THE VERDICT

• Best drinking: nowish, but not hurry
• Score (out of 20): 17.7
• Score (out of 100): 92
• Alcohol %: 12.4
• RRP (in $AUD): 65
• Winery website: https://terreaterre.com.au/
• Would I buy it?: worth a few glasses