Foxeys Hangout offers visitors the exciting opportunity to join sparkling winemaker Michael Lee for a private tutorial in the final stages of making fine sparkling wine.

The finishing stages are known as disgorgement, dosage and corkage. Sparkling base wines that have already been fermented in the bottle, aged on lees and riddled are disgorged – that is, the bottle necks are frozen and opened and, in a sometimes dramatic moment, the deposit that has formed in their necks is popped out as a chunk of ice. A mixture of wine and sugar syrup, called the dosage, is added before the bottle is corked and secured with a wire muzzle.

Personal bottlings by appointment at 10am every Saturday and Sunday.

Bookings Essential.

Two people, including tastings and a take-home bottle $75

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