Australian sparkling wines – particularly those from Tasmania – are as fine as any in the world”.

Fun Fact: All of the 2019 Effervescence Tasmania producers received 5 Star ratings in the 2021 James Halliday Wine Companion. The highest accolade; 5 Red Stars represents ‘Outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity….Where the winery name is itself is printed in red, it is a winery generally acknowledged to have had a long track record of excellence in the context of its region — truly the best of the best’ and have been awarded to:

It would also come as no surprise, that the Sparkling Wine of the year has been awarded to the 2005 House of Arras EJ Carr Late Disgorged 99/100 points.Worthy winners. Congratulations to Ed and his team.

More congratulations are in order to Josef Chromy Wines and Moorilla who are listed in the Top 5 Winery Experiences by The Age / SMH Traveller.com,au. It’s a little bittersweet during the current circumstances, but through adversity comes innovation. See their latest offerings below:

 

A wonderful experience for one person or make a gathering (being covid compliant of course). Go behind the scenes on a virtual tour of the Josef Chromy winery and learn how ‘traditional method’ Sparkling wine is made.

Go behind the scenes on a virtual tour of the Josef Chromy winery and learn how ‘traditional method’ Sparkling wine is made.

Guests will be taken through the sparkling wine making and disgorging process, then work in the comfort of their own home to trial their own liqueur d’expedition dosage and craft a bottle of sparkling to their exact taste. Inc is 2 x 750ml btls of Josef Chromy NV Sparkling Cuvee “Art of Sparkling Zero Dosage” bottles, 2 x 750ml btls of Josef Chromy NV Tasmanian Sparkling Cuvee, 2 x 750ml btls of Josef Chromy NV Sparkling Rose and all the equipment needed to curate your own sparkling wine.

 

The museum may be shut but David’s brain has been working overtime, concocting a plan to reopen Faro and experiment on you therein. Willing participants will be subjected to a mystery menu, changing theme each week, and you won’t know what you’re in for until you arrive at the museum. The food, the drinks, the live music, societal norms—David wants to experiment with the lot, and you’ll need to sign a waiver absolving Mona of any charges of poor taste. You’ll also get to see parts of the dormant museum with hardly anyone else around, and—if late lunch is your thing—the dusk ascension of spectra.