Selector Cellar - Issue 94

Trimboli Family Wines Lucia Tresecco 2023

Light, fresh and dry with a pleasing aromatic profile of compressed green apples, pears and lemons.

Creamy layers of citrus and peach, nashi and Bosc pear with a savoury, grassy edge flow through to a clean and fresh array of green apples, pears and peaches, and honeydew melon.

There is a fine, sour note to the palate which makes it great on its own, or as an aperitif.

Pairing and cellaring

Cellar for 1-3 years. Enjoy on its own or with fresh oysters.

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Sam Miranda Pink Prosato NV

Fun packaging belies that this is a serious contender for Australia's best example of this emerging style. Aromas of baked cherry, rhubarb, mountain herbs, and blood orange blend with fresh pears.

Complex and cleverly layered, with dry, savoury and sweet red fruit lifted with zesty orange sherbet.

A Dolcetto/Sangiovese/Barbera trio that delivers serious sparkles with a creamy, savoury edge.

Pairing and cellaring

Cellar 1-3 years. Great with grilled sourdough and buttery mushrooms.

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Mitolo Perduto Pecorino 2024

A purposely textural and rounded approach to this once forgotten Italian varietal, but we are starting to see more Australian examples and this is a stylistic standout.

Complex and thought provoking aromas with layers of citrus, citrus peel, gooseberries, pears, apricot and grass. Extended lees contact imparts a lovely rounded texture that sits nicely with its sour, savoury fruit combinations.

Pairing and cellaring

Cellar for 3-6 years. Great with roast chicken, herbs and a salad.

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Sam Miranda Verduzzo 2024

This rare variety hailing from Italy's northeast has buckets of aromatic appeal with green apple skins, eucalyptus, jasmine and honeysuckle. This carries through to the palate with a nicely defined mix of apples, melons, lemon peel and pears.

Generous with a nice tension between the length and the texture, it's an all round food and entertaining favourite that may well appeal to red lovers.

Pairing and cellaring

Cellar 3-5 years. A great wine to accompany a mushroom risotto.

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Stefani Estate Boccallupo Sangiovese 2020

Hailing from cuttings of the Stefani family's vineyard in Tuscany, this a real look into a classically styled Chianti Classico.

A few extra years in bottle has benefited this wine greatly with the aromatics showing an appealing mixture of fresh and secondary fruits and herbs; baked black cherry, raspberry and strawberries with hints of amaro and chinotto.

The palate is medium bodied, elegant and finely textured, awash with black cherries, raspberries and strawberries, with a soft, silky and savoury finish - a great wine to share with those you care about.

Pairing and cellaring

Cellar from now to 2031. Enjoy with a well made steak sanga.

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Mitolo Cinquecento Sangiovese 2023

A classic example from one of the pioneers of this key Italian varietal in Australia. Fine and delicate aromas, with clearly defined layers of strawberry, red cherries, earth, dried herbs, anise and hints of blood orange.

Palate is full, vibrant and dense with compressed layers of delicious black and red fruits. A great barbeque wine to share with friends, built to get better with bottle age, if you're patient.

Pairing and cellaring

Cellar for 3-5 years. Pair with beef carpaccio with crunchy pane de casa.

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Trimboli Family Wines Saverio Selezione Della Regione Nero d'Avola 2023

Slippery, delicious, extremely moreish. Aromatics are classic Nero with silty, grey and red soil tinged blueberries, plums, dried blackberries, rhubarb and dried thyme.

Medium bodied and silky across the palate, the flavours are dried black cherries and blackberries with fine layers of raspberries and herbs. Could be a real go to for lovers of rich, mid weight wines.

Pairing and cellaring

Cellar 3-5 years. A treat with barbequed lamb or pizza.

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