Nebbiolo in Central Vic sounds like a hard graft but a row was planted at Eastern Peake in 1991 (wow!) and there was a few others who decided it might be worthwhile around there and hence we get this wine. Fermented in concrete, then hangs out in larger format oak barrels after. It’s been sitting in bottle a year too.

Scents of game meat, sour cherry, rosemary, undergrowth and turned earth. Go you good thing. Savoury, and so the palate follows, dry, a little dusty in crushed rock tannin, more game meat and sour cherry, rose hip tea, some prune, bloody things. I love it. Tannin is fine but firm, sweeps through the light juiciness of the palate, the length unreal with persistence of gamey things and pomegranate juice. Caveat of earth and bloody things maybe a quibble for some, no issue in terms of quality for me, a delightful thing to drink with its swashbuckling slash of fruit and savouriness.