Marnong Estate Montepulciano 2024
I have a small issue with Australian winemakers calling their wines simply ‘Montepulciano.’ The grape in Italy is Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, and not to be confused with the township in Tuscany […]
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Marnong Estate Sangiovese 2024
Alex Beckett, Marnong Estate’s winemaker is a Hunter Valley lad and made a swag of the alternative varieties for the well regarded Briar Ridge in Pokolbin. Here he takes the […]
Angullong Fossil Hill Sangiovese 2022
From the rolling hills of of the Orange region in Central West, New South Wales. Note, bottle image is of 2021, but nought else has changed. Angullong, Fossil Hill, Sangiovese, […]
Claymore Wines Blackbird Sangiovese 2016
Sangiovese has some way to come in Australia to try to match some of the incredible Tuscan Chiantis. There’s usually a certain “x” factor missing from them, but I’ve been […]
Pizzini’s Honour – Sangiovese of the King Valley
The Pizzini family story is like that of many Italian families in Australia. They arrived in the 1950s looking for work after World War 2, and settled in the King […]
Grandi Marchi Master Class
On a very wet and grey, un-Sydney weathered day, I was fortunate enough to be invited to a master class tasting of the Grandi Marchi, essentially Italy’s First Families Of […]
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