Coolangatta Estate is one of two vineyards in the Shoalhaven Coast to make a frizzante but both are very different.

The Bishop family at the Shoalhaven Heads vineyard have talked about making a frizzante from Savagnin grapes for years.

The 2014 vintage, being so high in quantity and quality, provided the opportunity to ask the winemakers at Tyrrells to use some of the grapes for the lower-alcohol style sweet wine with bubbles but not as many as a sparkling wine.

And the response from cellar door visitors and restaurant guests has been outstanding, according to cellar door manager Ben Wallis.

"It has been extremely positive. Over the festival weekend in June it was one of our top five sellers. It is something different. People have associated the Coolangatta name with the dry white styles. Now we are throwing something different out there and people are liking it too, even though it may be not what they are expecting when they come in.

The Coolangatta Estate Savagnin Frizzante 2014 is an Italian wine style meaning slightly effervescent.

Mr Wallis described it as a wine with a little residual sweetness with a spritz that takes a little of the edge off.

"I think the translation [of frizzante] is along the lines of little bubble," he said.

"With a carbonated wine you see those bubbles in the glass where with this one you feel it more on the palate. But without that spritz it would be a lot sweeter again. It comes in at 5 per cent alcohol and that is pretty much to do with the winemaking method. The sweetness has come as a result of having the wine not fermented right out. So you have higher sugar and that means the alcohol content is lower as well."

The other vineyard making a frizzante is Cambewarra Estate at Nowra, with red Chambourcin grapes.