Our Wines

Montepulciano is an Italian red variety that makes beguiling wines and also causes confusion, in a way that only the Italians can. As well as the grape variety called Montepulciano, there is also a town called Montepulciano, where they make wine BUT they make their wine using Sangiovese grapes not Montepulciano grapes. So that if...

For centuries, the prevailing wisdom has been ‘white wine: chilled, red wine: room temperature,’ but changing tastes and changing climates are challenging the norm. Room temperature is a nebulous thing. The Oxford English Dictionary states that it is ‘conventionally taken as about 20 °C (68 °F)’ – a number that will strike many Aussies as unseasonably chilly, but equally,...