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Peter Rumball is an Australian specialist Méthode Champenoise Sparkling Winemaker who led the 1980's renaissance of sparkling red wines. His style has made him famous in Australia. Peter Rumball loves this style so much, Sparkling Red wine is now the majority of sparkling wine that he produces.

A Vintage Sparkling Shiraz is made in good years.
The Vintage wine is designed for a long life and therefore is made with the best Coonawarra Shiraz base wines from most years.
Vintage Sparkling Shiraz (much like Vintage Champagne) will live for 50 or 60 years on the yeast lees. When the wine is disgorged after this time, it is fresh and beautiful.

The wines are heavy in varietal character. Shiraz and Merlot are used. Big, full base wines are made from these grapes; they have great depth of colour and fruit character. The resultant sparkling wine has a very full palate. A special formula expedition liqueur is added at the disgorging stage.
The NV wines will age and improve in the bottle for another three years, although the wine palate is set up for maximum balance at the time of purchase and therefore would be slightly out of balance at greater than three years bottle age.
As only the best quality grapes are used, the Sparkling Shiraz is promoted to go with food: generally at dinner with friends, or for specific occasions such as Christmas or Thanksgiving. As Sparkling Shiraz is a big style, the wine is promoted in association with game meats such as turkey, duck, kangaroo or goat. etc or strong cheeses (Stilton, blue vein, Gorgonzola). - Rumball Wines

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