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.
No missing the woodiness of time in barrel – the bouquet nutty and cedary with red fruit and rose petal aromas floating around it. Attractive. It’s firm, rich and powerful to taste, teetering into light red territory with colour and intensity, but finishing with enough lift and crisp acid freshness to remind you you’re in rosé territory. Oak lends a creaminess to texture too, offering some additional interest. Not your usual rosé, showing great complexity and intent of style. Be prepared, but I see an interesting, delicious wine here.
Rated : 92 Points
Tasted : DEC 2013
Alcohol : 13.2%
Price : $22
Closure : Screwcap
Drink : 2013 – 2017
Mike Bennie
The Wine Front
