Geelong, Victoria

Chardonnay & Pinot Gris

The origin of Méthode Ancestrale as the name suggests is old, dating back nearly 500 years to a time when there was very little understanding of the science of fermentation. The story goes that in the mid 1500s a monk at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Hilaire near Limoux in southwest France (his name was not Dom Pérignon), noticed that some bottled wines from the most recent vintage had exploded... The bottles that survived the pressure represent the birth of sparkling wine. The wine in this bottle follows this ancient method but fortunately includes some insights from science, no exploding bottles!! - Winery note