Stella Bella Pink Muscat

The finest Muscat grape, the Muscat Blanc À Petits Grain is used to create Stella Bella Pink Muscat.

In style the Pink Muscat draws upon Moscato wines styles - sweetly fruity, low alcohol and lightly fizzy.

The rosa of the berries is expressed sumptuously in the wine's colour, aroma and bouquet.

A blushing pink bouquest full of the delicate fragrance of rose petals and the palate, exotic with the flavours of turkish delight, rose water and summer berries.

REVIEWS

STELLA BELLA PINK MUSCAT 2007

Winestate Magazine Best of the West May-June 2008
4 Stars - Lovely fresh style with attractive musky characters. Sweet perfumed nose and flavoursome Muscat palate with good acid balance and structure.

Wine Business Magazine Febuary 2008

92 points. These pink drinks are terrific! Mid-salmon colour and just the faintest visible bubbles on pouring, this is a classic Moscato-style. It smells of grapes, honeysuckle and red apples. Spritzy Turkish delight on the tongue, it's not too sweet - refreshing and not cloying.

Australian Gourmet Traveller November 2007

With a few vintages under their belts, the Stella Bellas can claim to be the father and mothers of pink Moscato in Australia. This is a slightly less frothy style - more pulpy red fruit and rose-petal aromatics.

STELLA BELLA PINK MUSCAT 2006

James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2008

88/100 At the outer edge of grapey sweetness, but hauled back by crisp acidity; very clever winemaking.

STELLA BELLA PINK MUSCAT 2005

written by Huon Hooke & Ralph Kyte-Powell. The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide 2007
This is a perennial favourite of the authors. There should be more wines of this type as they are so popular with the drinkers – not necessarily with the wine cognoscenti, but the regular wine-drinking public. The colourful label and cute packaging is also a winner.

Current release 2005. It’s a very pale shade of pink and has a slight spritz in the glass. The aroma is a lovely fresh, clean muscat-grape fragrance, which really invites you to take a sip. The alcohol is low and the body very light, so don’t expect a lot of flavour. The fruit is lifted by some residual sugar and it’s a lovely sipping wine- or you could accompany it with a piece of fresh fruit, especially a bunch of grapes.

written by Peter Forrestal 23/7/06 Sunday Times
A Margaret River producer in expansion mode. Clearly the best local sticky - it's vibrant, fresh and pristine with grapey, musk flavours and admirable sweetness cut by clean, crisp acidity.

STELLA BELLA PINK MUSCAT 2004

written by Peter Forrestalsummer 05/06 Sunday Times
Sweet Taste of Success. This season wrap your sweet tooth around some of the best dessert wines from across Australia. Margaret Rivers 2004 Stella Bella Pink Muscat is made as a moscato – low in alcohol, slightly fizzy and sweet. It has delicate grape and musk flavours, is vibrant and sweet, with a fresh, clean, crisp finish.

written by Ben Canaider July/05 ABC Delicious
Winter is the time for a warming glass of port, sherry or a 'sticky', so it's just as well that these sweet wines - once seen as old fashioned - have finally come in from the cold. This very slightly fizzy pink muscat is a soft, sensual and playful wine. There are musky and honeysuckled aromas, but it's grapey sweet not sickly sweet. Think pre-luncheon for no other reason than that you can, or try it after lunch with a  bowl of fresh fruit.

Written by Mathew Jukes
THE WINE LIST 2005. TOP 250 WINES OF THE YEAR (UK Published Book)
Made by Janice McDonald this frivolous, fizzy, cherry-scented, off dry wine is the ultimate choccy or strawberry pud wine. A half bottle will serve six (or two if you are naked) so it is only a pound or so a head. You'd never forget the person that serves this to you, so get in first and be the hostess with the mostess.

STELLA BELLA PINK MUSCAT 2003

written by Huon Hooke & Ralph Kyte-Powell. The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide 2005|2006
In keeping with Stella Bella’s slightly unconventional approach compared to other Margaret River wines, this is made in a style that resembles the Italian Moscatos, low in alcohol with a tingle of gas, sweetly fruity and so refreshing.

Current Release 2004. A Salmon-pink wine with a slight spritz on opening. The nose is grapey and floral-fragrant, and the palate is sweet, light and juicy with a little thread of firmness towards the back palate. A little whisper of sulphur may worry some, but it didn’t put us off at all. Try it with a fresh tropical fruit salad.

Written by Huon Hooke, 24/01/2004 Sydney Morning Herald
03 pink Muscat ($17 a half; just 7.5 per cent alcohol and very light, strawberry-scented and slightly sweet)

Written by Ralph Kyte-Powell, 20/01/2004 (The Age)
Stella Bella is an offshoot of Suckfizzle, based at Margaret River, and the off-beat feel of the operation is reflected in this wholly eccentric wine. Made in the Italian moscato style but with a bright salmon-pink colour, it has a succulent grapey-floral nose, a juicy, sweet palate that's fresh and delectable, a lively tingle of fizz and a friendly 7.5 per cent alcohol. Ageing? No. Food ideas: Fresh summer fruits. RATINGS - **** A very good wine of real style and personality. VALUE - $$ Reasonably priced relative to quality.

For tasting notes on previous vintages please contact us directly on wines@stellabella.com.au