2021 Minim Colbinabbin Sangiovese

WINEMAKER: Tim Sproal
REGION: Heathcote, VIC
VARIETAL: Sangiovese
VITICULTURE: Organic

Aromatically this wine is all red fruit and soft spice; cherry, raspberry, cinnamon and star anise. The palate dry is with ripe fragrant fruit of cranberry, raspberry, cherry and plum. There is a lovely spice from the old oak and a long finish. The drying Sangiovese tannins support the fruit, giving the wine great structure. Such a satisfying wine…a little deeper this year, but still fresh and fruitful. Classic Chianti (via Heathcote).

A trained geologist and passionate cook, Tim Sproal was inspired to become a winemaker after a revelatory dinner at Hobart institution Garagistes in 2010. A year later he made his first wine under a tree during one of the wettest years in recent memory. He says he made a lot of mistakes, and a “weird, faulty” wine. But a wine, none the less.