A positively riveting, Champagne-style sparkling wine from Tasmania. Immediately enticing, with rich baking spices, French pastry notes, zesty citrus, and confected lemon bar flavors, along with crisp orchard fruit. A vivid, frothy, airy mousse envelops the palate, growing expansive in the mouth, with fleshy fruit and white flowers, floral notes, slivered almonds, and a long, wet-stone, saline-acid finish. The late disgorgement adds impressive complexity from 11 years of lees aging; it’s a blend of 62% Chardonnay and 38% Pinot Noir, with 10% fermented in new Francois-Frere oak barriques. This wine has great energy and is ultra delicious. Disgorged in November 2025. Founded in 1995 by pioneering winemaker Ed Carr, House of Arras produces traditional-method sparkling wines from cool-climate Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier grown across Tasmania. Based in Pipers River, the house is known for extended lees aging and precise, complex cuvées that helped establish Tasmania’s international sparkling-wine reputation.