Empire of Dirt Emerge Traditional Sparkling 2020 (6 Bottles) Geelong

$271.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

A Pinot noir and Chardonnay blended vintage sparkling with fruit all from Geelong’s Moorabool Valley. 24 months on lees and 8g/L residual sugar give luscious roundness to this beautiful wine.

This is my Traditional Method Sparkling only made every few vintages. The name comes from my fascination with the sparkling wine production process and it’s my most stressful, costly to produce, and favourite wine to make. You start with the base wine that is bottled with sugar and yeast.

At this point I have a vision of what I have created but you haver to play the waiting game and see what will EMERGE. I will taste the base wine every 6-8 weeks and every time it tastes completely different. Sometimes its “Wow!!”, other times “Meh” (the wine components aren’t sitting right and I have an existential crisis questioning everything I’m doing).

Eventually after many months evolving and interacting with the lees (and many, many emotional rollercoasters) this complex delicious fizzy liquid comes together.

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About Empire of Dirt Wines

Tash Webster is the founder and winemaker of the Moorabool Valley based label Empire wines (previously Empire of dirt wines). She gained experience working in many wineries and vineyards across Geelong’s three sub-regions (as well as her hometown of Orange, NSW) while completing her CSU winemaking degree as Dux and with distinction. Having failed with her first business attempt (always a good life lesson) she now makes boutique wines that represent the Geelong region. Tash was a finalist in the 2020 Young guns of wine awards, and has experience judging in both regional, state, and national Wine shows.

My love of music and pop culture heavily influences the names of the labels. You’ll always find the speakers blaring in the winery when I’m working, or when at home cooking, gardening, or sitting by the fire pit. I’m a strong believer of letting the wines speak for themselves rather than forcing a style that screams me, so I’m minimal intervention as much as possible.

As a highly introverted person by nature, I’d much rather hang out with my cats than be out talking up the wines so thanks for dropping by and joining the Empire!

World Wine Estates

World Wine Estates is a wine importer and distributor that was established in 1988 as the import and wholesale arm of the Ultimo Wine Centre – Sydney’s famous premier wine retailer.

Throughout the years we have added premium Australian and New Zealand agencies to our portfolio, whilst maintaining a French wine focus. All our wines are carefully chosen to ensure that we offer our customers high quality wines to suit every type of business.