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Vigna Bottin @ Cellar Door Wine Festival

February 16, 2015 · Comments Off on Vigna Bottin @ Cellar Door Wine Festival

The multi-award winning annual Cellar Door Wine Festival – Adelaide is back with an array of new exciting features!

Meet the winemakers, taste some of South Australia’s finest wines and food offerings and discover new hidden gems to take home with you!

Showcasing over 170+ food and wine producers, from internationally renowned brands alongside niche boutique stars, the Festival provides the ultimate opportunity for over 9000 visitors to learn about our state’s unparalleled wine regions and offering.

For tickets and more information (including opening and closing times for all 3 days), visit www.cellardoorfestival.com

See you there!

Battle of the Valleys

Battle of the Valleys

January 9, 2015 · Comments Off on Battle of the Valleys

This is going to be huge..

Saturday February 14th
‘Battle of the Valleys’ – McLaren Vale Cru vs. Barossa vs. Adelaide Hills

WHAT: Come to the inaugural battle of the Valleys, 3 regions, 3 groups of small boutique wineries, Artisans of the Barossa, Hills Underground & Vale Cru battle it out, old school sports day style. Bands & DJ, food vans & some of the finest SA wines will be on offer for a day of fun, freinds and entertainment.

VENUE:
Rockbare Cellar Door
102-104 Main Road
Hahndorf, SA 5245

Get early bird tix now before they go “bye, bye”. www.trybooking.com/gpbz

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Not the usual suspects!

November 25, 2014 · Comments Off on Not the usual suspects!

A not to be missed Adelaide wine event. Join us this Sunday at the National Wine Centre to celebrate the weird and wonderful – our most beloved alternative varieties.
Paolo (our winemaker) will be on hand so make sure you think of some tough questions to ask him!

Ciao Maria.

 

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Bottle Stop – New Release Vigna Bottin 2014 Vermentino

October 24, 2014 · Comments Off on Bottle Stop – New Release Vigna Bottin 2014 Vermentino

One of the great challenges in defining a wine region, both by its own folk as well as onlookers, is it can be too easy to say McLaren Vale equals shiraz. Coonawarra and cabernet. Clare and riesling. And so on.

But regions ain’t one-horse towns any more. And if ever there’s a place that applies, it’s McLaren Vale, where an adventurous spirit has underpinned some of our greatest leaps forward in wine styles and alternative varieties.

Small, and, to be fair, some larger winemakers, embedded day in, day out to their patches of dirt, have been crafting tiny batches of wine from minutely identified blocks or sections of vineyards and invariably engaged in sustainable winemaking and viticultural practices.

In McLaren Vale, there’s a great bunch of such like-minded souls who have formed the Vale Cru.

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Vale Cru Storm Melbourne

July 17, 2014 · Comments Off on Vale Cru Storm Melbourne

The Vale Cru is storming Melbourne to showcase the wonderful variety of McLaren Vale personalities and wine being made today.

Join us for a trade tasting July 24 from 12-5pm at the Botanical followed by a free consumer tasting there from 5-7pm. Then on Saturday, July 26, the Cru is at the famous Prince Wine Store en masse from 12-2pm for yet another free volley. Come meet the future of one of… Australia’s premier wine regions.

Vale Cru is a collective of small production McLaren Vale winemakers who band together to introduce consumers to wine that expresses the brilliant diversity of grape varieties, people, geology, winemaking approaches and sustainable farming methods that make McLaren Vale the most forward looking wine region in Australia.

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Vigna Bottin Sangiovese Rosé 2013

January 17, 2014 · Comments Off on Vigna Bottin Sangiovese Rosé 2013

Paolo and Maria Bottin are the proprietors of Vigna Bottin; a family legacy traipses back to ye olde Italy but the first travelling generation arrived in Australia in the 1970s and McLaren Vale. The Bottin family have been growing grapes for others for some time, but decided to plant vermentino, sangiovese and barbera for themselves, and make a small range of wines. Their notoriety has been catapulted by recent success at the McLaren Vale Wine Show 2013. Glenn James-Pritchard of Ducks In A Row fame helped out with the winning vermentino wine. This wine is sangiovese-made rosé that sees some barrel ferment for complexity.

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Bottle Stop – Award Winners

December 30, 2013 · Comments Off on Bottle Stop – Award Winners

The big story from the recent McLaren Vale regional wine show was the nine trophies won by Rosemount, steered by winemaker Matt Koch who crafted a winning range of traditional and alternative red wines.

Then there was the white wine that stole everyone’s heart, a variety with Italian tradition now gaining notice in a couple of regions – the Riverland, and after the Vigna Bottin 2013 Vermentino won four trophies last week, definitely McLaren Vale.

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Vigna Bottin Vermentino sweeps the 2013 McLaren Vale Wine Show

Has McLaren Vale found its white in shining armour?

October 10, 2013 · No Comments

Vigna Bottin Vermentino sweeps the 2013 McLaren Vale Wine Show

Quiet achievers Paolo and Maria Bottin have moved the family photographs from the mantelpiece to make room for five trophies awarded to their single vineyard Vermentino at the recent McLaren Vale Wine Show.

The top awards are the first for the second generation Italian family winemakers who have been growing high-quality grapes in the McLaren Vale region since 1970 and whose small-batch wines are, Paolo says “what I get out of bed for every morning.”

The awards include: Best Single Vineyard wine, Best White Wine other, Best Viticulturalist and the Chairperson’s Trophy awarded by Chief Judge Tom Carson.

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