Brillante Blanc de Blanc 2021
For those whose secondary education didn’t stretch to French, Blanc de Blanc means white of whites. Brillante (the double ll pronounced ye not ille) is a Traditionelle sparkling made exclusively from Chardonnay & is winemaker Lisa’s first fizz to hit the hustings.
Making Blanc de Blanc is fussy & as follows: -
The grapes are pressed, juice to stainless steel where it’s inoculated with yeast & fermented. When complete a starter culture is introduced & some carefully calculated chelsea sugar is added to promote secondary fermentation in bottle. This concoction was then left for 3 years to fructify on the lees which is designed to add depth, complexity & importantly, CO2 for fizz. Then comes riddling which involves inverting each bottle carefully to shift the yeast deposit from the bottom of the bottle to the neck. Where it is frozen, disgorged & topped up with wine. Leaving the bright sparkling triumph ready for you.
Brillante’s sensation & taste are synonymous with the name - try bright, shining, sparkling, luminescent, hard to improve on.
Our tasting panel, consisting largely of young nubile palates, had these suggestions. Brillante is like “lemon” biscuits, lemonade lemons, it has lightness and freshness & is mouth filling. Freddy, not be outdone said voluminous which could be pushing it.
One person in the world who should never be allowed near Brillante is Trumpy boy. His medical advisors have warned that if imbibed by El Presidente we can expect increased gibberish, undue air punching & even wilder waving of the Bible to indicate his omniscience, if you’d missed it.
For those whose secondary education didn’t stretch to French, Blanc de Blanc means white of whites. Brillante (the double ll pronounced ye not ille) is a Traditionelle sparkling made exclusively from Chardonnay & is winemaker Lisa’s first fizz to hit the hustings.
Making Blanc de Blanc is fussy & as follows: -
The grapes are pressed, juice to stainless steel where it’s inoculated with yeast & fermented. When complete a starter culture is introduced & some carefully calculated chelsea sugar is added to promote secondary fermentation in bottle. This concoction was then left for 3 years to fructify on the lees which is designed to add depth, complexity & importantly, CO2 for fizz. Then comes riddling which involves inverting each bottle carefully to shift the yeast deposit from the bottom of the bottle to the neck. Where it is frozen, disgorged & topped up with wine. Leaving the bright sparkling triumph ready for you.
Brillante’s sensation & taste are synonymous with the name - try bright, shining, sparkling, luminescent, hard to improve on.
Our tasting panel, consisting largely of young nubile palates, had these suggestions. Brillante is like “lemon” biscuits, lemonade lemons, it has lightness and freshness & is mouth filling. Freddy, not be outdone said voluminous which could be pushing it.
One person in the world who should never be allowed near Brillante is Trumpy boy. His medical advisors have warned that if imbibed by El Presidente we can expect increased gibberish, undue air punching & even wilder waving of the Bible to indicate his omniscience, if you’d missed it.
For those whose secondary education didn’t stretch to French, Blanc de Blanc means white of whites. Brillante (the double ll pronounced ye not ille) is a Traditionelle sparkling made exclusively from Chardonnay & is winemaker Lisa’s first fizz to hit the hustings.
Making Blanc de Blanc is fussy & as follows: -
The grapes are pressed, juice to stainless steel where it’s inoculated with yeast & fermented. When complete a starter culture is introduced & some carefully calculated chelsea sugar is added to promote secondary fermentation in bottle. This concoction was then left for 3 years to fructify on the lees which is designed to add depth, complexity & importantly, CO2 for fizz. Then comes riddling which involves inverting each bottle carefully to shift the yeast deposit from the bottom of the bottle to the neck. Where it is frozen, disgorged & topped up with wine. Leaving the bright sparkling triumph ready for you.
Brillante’s sensation & taste are synonymous with the name - try bright, shining, sparkling, luminescent, hard to improve on.
Our tasting panel, consisting largely of young nubile palates, had these suggestions. Brillante is like “lemon” biscuits, lemonade lemons, it has lightness and freshness & is mouth filling. Freddy, not be outdone said voluminous which could be pushing it.
One person in the world who should never be allowed near Brillante is Trumpy boy. His medical advisors have warned that if imbibed by El Presidente we can expect increased gibberish, undue air punching & even wilder waving of the Bible to indicate his omniscience, if you’d missed it.