Bubbles boffin Tracy Mann will return with her sparkling wit and wisdom as a champagne champion to The Shorehouse for the annual Blanc de Blancs dinner on October 25. The Swanbourne institution, with its crisp white interior and alfresco deck, is the ideal location for this celebration of crisp and clean sparkling wine on Global Champagne Day. “Blanc de blancs translates to ‘white of whites’,” the Vin De Champagne award winner told Bar & Bites.
“In champagne terms this refers to a white wine from white chardonnay grapes, which are generally grown on the Cote des Blancs, or ‘slopes of white’, referring to the dense white chalk subsoils (on which) the vines are grown. “Lots of ‘white’ happening here.” The wine style is perfect for Perth in spring, Mann said.
“Blanc de blancs, in their youth, always have a lustrous silver-green glint to them,” she added, “and, combined with the aromas of little white flowers, yuzu and oyster shell salinity, it just seems like the synergy is there.” Tickets to the Blanc de Blancs dinner cost $325 per person for eight champagnes matched to a five-course dinner . Visit shorehouse.
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