Pizzini 2023 Il Barone

If you enjoy your red wines dry and savoury then this one will be right up your alley. It is an unusual blend of four grape varieties that come together in an impressive vinous symphony: cabernet sauvignon, sangiovese, nebbiolo and shiraz. Extremely food friendly - we paired our bottle with a chicken and leek pie - it is a wine that can be enjoyed now, but also confidently cellared for a couple of decades, I reckon. The Pizzini family in Victoria's King Valley are masters of Italian grape varieties, but winemaker Joel Pizzini has excelled himself with a wine in which each variety was fermented separately, aged for up to 12 months in a selection of French oak barrels, then blended and matured a further six months in oak. Lovely stuff. The Il Barone ("The Baron") name honours the family's historical noble status $65. www.pizzini.com.au.

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