Aldinga Bay Wine Offer

• A special from the Vinodiversity Wine Club

Aldinga Bay is a small winery at the southern end of the McLaren Vale wine region. The maritime climate here is ideal for growing a wide range of varieties. Innovative winemakers are developing exciting new wines, creating a new standing in an area already renowned for its quality red wines.

At Aldinga Bay winemaker Nick Girolamo has built a solid reputation in transforming his family vineyard from the production of bulk wines into a specialist in emerging varieties.

This special dozen provides a varietal showcase of what is possible from six emerging varieties. The cost to you is way under retail price.

Two Bottles each of the following wines

• Barbera 2004
  Barbera is the principle grapevine variety planted in the Piedmont region of north-western Italy, and is one of the country’s most commonly planted red varieties. It is a moderately late ripening variety which maintains good fruity flavours, good colour, lower levels of tannins and high levels of natural acidity at full ripeness. Barbera is generally regarded as a vine that will regularly and consistently produce good quality fruit in many different regions and a wide variety of management systems. Because of its naturally lower levels of tannins, it is considered to be an excellent wine for oak treatment. Aldinga Bay have had great success with this variety in the benign climatic conditions of McLaren Vale.
  
• Petit verdot 2000
  This is a very dark, thick-skinned grape that produces a wine of considerable depth with the colour intensity and spice similar to that of Shiraz. Much like Shiraz the wines often display peppery and fragrant aromas but with added nuance of ‘violets’ which makes the nose very attractive In McLaren Vale, vintages characterized by a long, warm growing season produce wines from Petit Verdot that are deep in colour, with a superb aroma, bouquet, and rich flavour.
  
• Sangiovese 2001
  This Italian variety does best in low fertility soils and a warm dry climate and because of the similarity of the McLaren Vale climate to that of Italy, the region is vigorously exploring new Italian varieties. The general climatic conditions and the manipulation of the micro-climate in the vineyard is leading to the production of some wonderful new wines that offer wine drinkers new experiences. Sangiovese wines tends to be a bright, deep garnet, often showing a brown edge, even when young. They display aromas of raspberry, dark cherries and plums underlined with earthy characters and nuances of tobacco, licorice and old leather. The flavours are savoury and complex with moderate levels of fruit tannin and clean acidity.
  
• Vermentino 2005
  Aldinga Bay is among the pioneers of this exciting variety in Australia. Vermentino is grown throughout Italy and especially on the island of Sardinia. This wine is dry but very aromatic, it has quite a strong varietal character that is best matched with chicken or strongly flavours seafood dishes. "Pinot grigio with balls" is one description of the varietal character of this wine.
  
• Verdelho 2004
  Verdelho is one of Australia's niche white vine varieties, producing a unique style of table wine performing well in a range of climates. This variety is best described as a generously flavoured style with varietal character ranging from herbaceous, grassy and spice through to more tropical flavours of pineapple, melon, tropical fruits, guava, honeysuckle and fruit salad, all balanced with crisp acidity. Verdelho is ideally matched with food dishes including seafood and light meats such as chicken, pork and veal or match the sweeter styles with Asian influenced dishes.
  
• Viognier 2003
  Viognier is becoming increasingly popular but has yet to take off in the same manner as Pinot grigio/gris. Viognier is a dry, intensely-flavoured, aromatic wine that exhibits somewhat floral qualities and aromas of apricots, peaches, melons and pears. Aldinga Bay have found the McLaren Vale area has ideal conditions for producing premium Viognier.

The Vinodiversity Aldinga Bay dozen is an unparalleled opportunity to try superb examples of six of the leading new varieties at a very reasonable price.

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Mixed Dozen: 2 bottles of each of the six wines above. $140 per dozen freight free in Australia.