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Fizz assortment – part 2

Thursday 18 December 2014
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See Sorting through the assortments for a guide to the many collections of tasting notes already published. Our final assortment of 2014, of Portuguese wines, will be published tomorrow.

We published our first assortment of fizzy tasting notes last month, but we keep encountering interesting wines so we hereby present you with reviews of a further 44 wines. I'd like to draw your attention particularly to one of my discoveries in the first Fizz collection, Artéis 2002 from an interesting new producer specialising in late-disgorged small lots of vintage champagne. Roberson currently have it on special introductory offer at £29.95...

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