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ACellars Newsletter 21st April, 2022 - Good Natured Wine Fair + New Occhipinti + Domenica Tasting Saturday!

by Annandale Cellars

Good Natured Wine Fair

Tickets on Sale Now!

 

Come join us and a bunch of good natured folk down at Annandale Cellars, as we celebrate wine.

Just wine.

Made from grapes.

Just grapes.

Nothing added.

Nothing subtracted.

It's only natural.

A natural wine fair, where the focus is on natural wine: lo-fi, minimal intervention, sustainable, organic, biodynamic, low-to-no preservatives, skin-contact, unfined, unfiltered, raw, pure juice.

From the seriously weird and wonderful with all their volant and funky faults, to the murine-free wines from producers who have really cleaned up their act, and the earth.

No matter your definition, come explore the natural world: there is something that is sure to appeal to your good, even better nature.

Naturally fermented grape juices from: Boaz ♥ Bobar ♥ Brash Higgins ♥ Brave New Wine ♥ Craven Wines ♥ Daniele Piccinin ♥ Domaine Marc Kreydenweiss ♥ frankly, this wine was made by bob ♥ Gentle Folk ♥ Jumping Juice ♥ La Violetta ♥ La Vrille et le Papillon ♥ Loïc Mahe ♥ Lucy M ♥ Partida Creus ♥ Podere San Biagio ♥ Poppelvej ♥ Si Vintners ♥ And more, naturally... ♥

The wine fair will be held at Annandale Cellars, under the cover of our marquees, come rain, hail or La Niña. Your ticket price includes your very own tasting glass to use on the day, and is yours to take home.

Places are limited, so get in quick!

 

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Occhipinti

A 16 year old Adrianna Occhipinti agreed to help her uncle Giusto Occhipinti (the 'O' of COS wines) at the VinItaly wine exposition as it would get her out of school for four days. It would also expose her to a world that she would soon join. And change.

Inspired by her uncle and the trip to Verona, Adrianna would leave school to study oenology and viticulture in Milan. But Sicily was in her blood, and she returned to Vittoria in the island's south to start farming a two acre family plot in the contrada (commune) of Fosse da Lupo. Adrianna released her first wine at the age of 22.

Adrianna is deeply connected to her island home, to the land.

She champions Sicily's native grapes, Nero d'Avola, Frappato and Grillo, and quickly rejected the industrial ideas taught to her during her studies, choosing instead to farm biodynamically since 2009. Harvesting is by hand, yeasts are indigenous and intervention is minimal: Arianna believes that wine has to be "accompanied" not "constructed". From old clones, the vines are toughened, and speak of the past with a robustness for the future. A passion to continuously research and understand the terroir of her home, Adrianna's Vino di Contrada range is like an artist's study of Frappato, observing its individual characteristics from every angle of vineyard, as variations in clay and limestone come into play.

"Respect the wine as if it was a person. A person who takes with him/her, a world, a history, an atmosphere. And it tastes like the land where it was born from. Mine is not just an organic wine. It is a natural wine as I think about myself, that's how I am. It comes from my sensibility towards true things and from my Gestures, my loving attentions. A wine that, in its harmonies and roughness, talks about the land where it comes from and also about me. That's why I think that the natural wine, besides being a good wine is also a human wine."

- Adrianna Occhipinti

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In-Store Tasting

Domenica

This Saturday, April 23rd

3pm - 6pm

Join Ed this Saturday in-store at Annandale Cellars as he takes you through the new releases from Peter Graham's Domenica.

Peter Graham is a respected member of a group known as the Beechworth Vignerons. Like the other proud and passionate vigneron members of the North East Victorian group, the wines he makes come from fruit harvested from the vines he tends himself. And with 13 years working as assistant winemaker under fellow Beechworth Vigneron, Rick Kinzbrunner of the famed Giaconda, there is no mistaking where his passion for the GI and the respect he has earnt as a winemaker both come from.

Peter flew the Giaconda coop in 2012 with an opportunity arising to buy the project vineyard shared by Rick and Rhône Royalty, Michel Chapoutier. Since then, Peter has been tending his vines on the slopes of the foothills of Victoria's high county, including of course, Beechworth's golden varietals, Chardonnay and Shiraz. His Rhône white varietals Roussanne and Marsanne thrive on the gentle slopes with their northern aspect and take a mineral drive from their granitic soils. Patient vinification with extended lees ageing results in his whites and rosé all showing off voluptuous texture.

But it is his Nebbiolo, the rising star varietal of the region, that really is the showstopper. From a single acre grown on shale in a protected southerly pocket of the vineyard, patient winemaking is again key with maturation softening those infamous tannins for a couple of years before release. Yields are kept low with Peter reminding us that "taste is more important than numbers".

However with bottle numbers being extremely limited, we urge you to get in quickly to taste!

See you Sabato (Saturday) for Domenica!

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