Popping the cork on sparkling

The rise in popularity of Sauvignon Blanc in recent years has seen a drop in demand for Delacolline Estate Wine’s Chardonnay. But the owners of the winery, located on the outskirts of the South Australian township of Port Lincoln, were keen to make use of a good crop of Chardonnay grapes in 2009 so they decided to add bubbles to produce the region’s first sparkling white wine.