With much encouragement (insistence) from my Mum and younger sister, I decided to make my first rosé from sangiovese in 2019, as my favourite examples from Italy and Australia come from this. After...
Though the grape name Prosecco comes from a town outside of Trieste, the real area for these sparkling wines is in Veneto, particularly in the province of Treviso. There is a lot of Prosecco made in...
The sagrantino variety is mostly only found in one small area in Italy, the historic village of Montefalco in the heart of Umbria. It is one of the rare red varieties to have colour in both the skin...
The vermentino grape can be found in several regions on the northern Mediterranean coast as well as the islands of Sardinia and Corsica. Whilst it does change somewhat depending on the region, it...
For several years I had been following a vineyard and producer located just outside Daylesford, intrigued by its small size and the fact that it was planted to Italian varieties, an anomaly for the...
In 2017 it was my great fortune to be put in touch with Robert John, proprietor of Malakoff Estate, and I ended up with some nebbiolo. As Italy’s most lauded and most demanding variety, I was...
Back in the 2018 vintage I bought my first pinot grigio grapes with the intention of making a style traditional to the Friuli region. Coming from the word rame meaning copper, Ramato is pinot grigio...
The Campania region in Italy’s south-west is one of the rare regions where white and red wines are almost equal. There are several white varieties that produce outstanding quality, particularly...
Though there is no shortage of pinot grigio produced in Italy, there are a few regions where they take this grape seriously and make some incredible wines from it. My goal was to make something a bit...
The Montepulciano grape (not to be confused with the town of Montepulciano in Tuscany where they ironically don’t grow Montepulciano) is widely planted in central Italy, mostly in Umbria, Le Marche...
