Scott Base

Scott Base Emperor Méthode Traditionnelle

This vintage has beautiful notes of lemon meringue, and as always, is complemented by classical chardonnay bee’s wax honey characters. Aromatics are wild herbs, honeycomb, a biscuit yeast autolysis characters. The palate is well balanced with lemon, pineapple building to a creamy mid-palate, and tapering off to an elegant finish which simply exudes finesse.

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Technical specifications

Grape Variety: 75% Pinot Noir & 25% Chardonnay
Alcohol: 12%
Residual Sugar: 4.5g/l
pH: 3.36 g/l
TA: 6.8 g/l
Malolactic Fermentation: 100%
Vegan: Yes

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Scott Base Emperor Méthode Traditionnelle

THROUGHOUT THE YEARS

Awards and Accolades

92 points - Cam Douglas, 2025

93 points - Bob Campbell, The Real Review, 2023

Top Rank - Bob Campbell

THE EXPERIENCE

Emperor

Our winemaker’s pairing suggestion

Like all great sparkling wines, The Emperor will perfectly match scallops, crayfish, or whitebait.

OUR PROCESS

From vineyard to glass

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Viticulture

With a climate and sandy, silty, loam soil terrain unmatched for both its rugged beauty and ability to produce excellent wines, it’s no wonder they’ve been enamoured with the vineyard from the start.

Vinification

The Emperor is 75% Pinot Noir & 25% Chardonnay harvested for sparkling base wine. Using only free run juice it is fermented to dryness, then filtered and prepared for secondary fermentation in the bottle. Just prior to bottling sugar and yeast is added to initiate the bottle fermentation.

Over the following weeks the yeast converts the sugar into carbon dioxide. Being unable to escape, the carbon dioxide dissolves into the wine creating the bubbles. After ageing up to two years on its lees, under cool dark conditions, the wine is disgorged and is ready to drink.