2023 Torzi Matthews Vigna Cantina Trebbiano

94+ Points, Tip Top Tipple & Top Value - Gary Walsh (TWF) - "There was no 2022 vintage produced due to frost. Anyway, 120 year old vines with 8 days of skin contact. Aged in seasoned hogsheads. What a great wine. White peach, aniseed, ripe lemon like the proper Italian ones where you can eat the skin kind of deal, peanuts, lemon verbena. It’s bright and laden with sweet lemon and grapefruit, plenty of tang and energy, peppery powdery tannin grip, saline and savoury, with a pithy finish of excellent length. Almonds in the aftertaste. Perhaps a little more frisky and nervous than the 2021, though I’d suggest time will be very kind to it."

Lovely mild vintage for the Barossa allowing for flavours to slowly build with excellent acid retention to achieve its  its electric styling. The old vine Trebbiano showcased small loose bunches of yellow nectar to produce another lovely textural table wine of character.

Hand picked & crushed into small 500kg fermenters for 8 days skin then basket pressed to seasoned French oak for  8 months to build texture, weight and complexity. A lovely energetic & very complex dry styling with lifted stone fruits, citrus florals and grapefruit. Flavours of  zesty lemon, nuts, grapefruit and stone fruits that persists to a savoury saline finish. Enjoy it with shell fish and white meats or embrace it just on its own.