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How Aussie winemaker Ed Carr became a global star
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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7/5/2025
Tasmanian winemaker Ed Carr has become the first Australian winemaker to win the Sparkling Winemaker of the Year Award at the International Wine Challenge held in London.
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sparkling wine is the glamour puss of wines it's the drink of celebration and the best sell for
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hundreds of dollars known as prosecco in Italy carver in Spain and sparkling wine in the United
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States Britain and Australia the gold standard is champagne from France for more than 30 years
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Australian Ed Carr has strived to match the French we just had a very simple philosophy sort of aim
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that we wanted to make a world-class sparkling wine not really realizing how long that might
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actually take South Australian based Ed has crafted several sparkling wine styles for the House of Aris
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brand since 1995 and his decision to only use Tasmanian grapes has paid off Ed is probably the
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single most awarded winemaker in the country of any genre style anything should we taste this Chardonnay
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yeah let's have a look Tasmanian sparkling wine maker Nat Fryer says Ed was already revered here when
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the big news came through last year naming Ed the international sparkling wine maker of the year
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first time's ever been won by non-champanois so someone from outside of champagne and that is
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astounding in itself he is for me the shining ambassador of what myself and many others are
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trying to do here on the island while Tasmanian sparklings can match it with the world's best now
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when Ed started in the 80s Aussie fizz was anything but premium the right grapes weren't being planted in
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the right places but the three varieties used to make sparkling Chardonnay Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier
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were just starting to be planted in cold climate regions we'd made sparkling wines from a lot of
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different regions throughout the mainland and Tassie but instantly Tasmania really shone to me it's
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fundamentally the Tasmanian climate really suited what we wanted to make the purity of the air the
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bright sunshine cool maritime climate and a very big range of soils several months after harvest
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it's time for the bench where up to 50 base wines are lined up for Ed to taste he decides how much of
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each he'll blend for each label he might use all three great varieties two or just one or add wines
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from previous years that's the real aim of our blending is to assemble wines to fill in the gaps
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that each individual wine might have so it's like a jigsaw really to put them all together to make the most
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complete wine that we possibly can Ed's 68 and not ready to retire like his sparkling wines age just seems to
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improve him
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