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About Us
We produce premium
Australian wines from Italian vines grown in our vineyard at Uraidla in the
Piccadilly Valley in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia.
We established
our vineyard in 1998 on a hill facing west towards Mount Lofty. This sunny
exposed site was chosen because of its suitability for the Italian vines we
wanted to plant and the similar environment to Piedmont in north west Italy
where our varieties of vine originated. The Piedmont is at the base of the
Swiss Alps and literally means "foot of the mountain". As the vines mature,
our wines will reflect the unique terroir of our Australian site.
Our steep
vineyard is at an altitude of 550 metres with an annual rainfall of 1100 mm
and a mean January temperature of 19.5 degrees centigrade with a long
growing season. The warm days and cool nights produce and conserve full
fruit flavours and gentle tannins in our grapes which are harvested
April/May.
Great wines start
with great grapes in the vineyard. For this reason we consulted with Dr
Alberto Antonini, a well respected viticulturalist and wine maker from
Italy, during the early development of our vineyard to ensure we maximised
the full potential of our Italian vines.
We are
environmentally friendly, using minimal irrigation, introduced beneficial
insects for pest control and netting for protection from birds.
All our vines are
cared for by hand, from planting to shoot positioning, picking and pruning.
Our wines are all
made personally by Andrew in our winery alongside the vineyard.
We are licensed
to crush 15 tonnes of grapes each vintage, so have only small quantities of
each of our unique wines.
Our philosophy is
to conserve the flavours and aromas we nurtured in the vineyard and carry
them into the wine. For this
reason we mature our red wines in old barrels to avoid hiding these characters
with excessive new oak. This makes our wines easy to drink earlier and
allows further flavours to develop in the bottle with age.
We have chosen a
screw top bottle for all our wines to eliminate cork taint and bottle
variation and to keep the wine fresh longer for your enjoyment. Screw
caps make opening and resealing your bottle easy and convenient. You
will never need a corkscrew again
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