Winemaker Notes
Vermentino on skins offering notes of peach and iced tea. A super refreshing wine.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Juicy and vibrant, this has a slightly cloudy appearance from 20 days on skins. Mineral aromas of citrus, tea leaves, chalk and fresh ginger. The light-bodied palate has a slight phenolic edge and an energetic drive with a textural, pithy finish. Delicious.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2024 Pigato is 100% Vermentino and pours with a gentle haze in the glass. There are notes of lemon barley, white pepper, green apple skin, rose petals and musk oil and also cloves. In the mouth, the wine is driven by intense acidity; but totally on the rails and crunchy doesn't accurately describe its impact, because the wine has a sleek texture and is almost creamy. It's a beautiful thing, attractive to fans of acid and precision, but I really appreciate the texture here too. It's distinct, with notes of chalk. 10.3% alcohol, sealed under Diam.
A fantastic, aromatic white grape that grows with great success in Sardinia, Tuscany and in lesser proportions on the island of Corsica. Somm Secret—Vermentino is thought to be genetically identical to Liguria’s Pigato grape and Peidmont’s Favorita. It comprises a large proportion of the whites in southern France where it is called Rolle.
The Clare Valley is actually a series of narrow north to south valleys, each with a different soil type and slightly different weather patterns along their stretch. In the southern heartland between Watervale and Auburn, there is mainly a crumbled, red clay loam soil called terra rossa and cool breezes come in from Gulf St. Vincent. A few miles north, in Polish Hill, is soft, red loam over clay; westerlies blowing in from the Spencer Gulf influece this area's climate.
The differences in soil, elevation, degree of slope and weather enable the region to produce some of Australia’s finest, aromatic, spicy and lime-pithy Rieslings, as well as excellent Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec with ripe plummy fruit, good acid and big structure.
Clare Valley is an isolated farming country with a continental climate known for its warm and sunny days, followed by cool nights—perfect for wine grapes’ development of sugar and phenolic ripeness in conjunction with notable acidity levels.