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Lisa Cardelli

Lisa Cardelli is an Italian-born wine professional based in Melbourne since 2010. She has worked as a sommelier in some of Melbourne’s best fine-dining restaurants for over 10 years, then leaving hospitality to work as wine sales representative. Lisa is a certified WSET Educator and teaches at Prince Wine Store and Wine House. And, when she is not busy looking after her one-year-old son, she judges at local wine shows. She is also a member of the wine selection’s panel of Qantas/Neil Perry and a judge for Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards. Lisa is the recipient of the 2022 Wine Communicators of Australia Best Published Feature Article; 2022 Sydney Royal Wine Professional Development Scholarship sponsored by the Len Evans Foundation; 2021 Wine Communicators of Australia mentee.

Apogee Deluxe Vintage Brut 2021

Other - Specialty
  • 95
  • $70
  • 2024-2028
A single vineyard blend of 59% Chardonnay, 36% Pinot noir and 5% Meunier. Lovely chains of pearls, delicate autolytic characters...
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Apogee Alto Pinot Noir 2023

Red Wine - Pinot Noir
  • 95
  • $65
  • 2024-2036
A discreet yet poised nose of raspberries, pomegranate, red currants, black cherries, vanilla, musk, blood plums, and poppy seeds. The...
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Apogee Deluxe Vintage Rosé Brut 2021

Other - Specialty
  • 95
  • $78
  • 2024-2030
A single vineyard blend of 51% Pinot Noir, 39% Chardonnay and 10% Meunier. Pink salmon with onion skin hue. An...
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Sticks Cabernet Sauvignon

Sticks Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 90
  • $27
  • 2024-2026
This is a medium-bodied style of Yarra Cabernet Sauvignon with pleasant cassis, blackberries, spearmint, roasted capsicum, leather, and tobacco aromas....
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AC Sirius Shiraz

Chalk Hill Alpha Crucis Sirius Shiraz 2021

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 96
  • $150
  • 2024-2040
It’s 2021, and it’s still a puppy. The fruit makes a bold statement, all-black and blue fruit, spices, and a...
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Block One SHIRAZ Bottle Shot

Bremerton Block One Shiraz 2022 

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 93
  • $50
  • 2024-2030
Elegant nose with poised blueberries, boysenberries, black fruit, pomegranate, milk chocolate, vanilla, rhubarb stick, crushed violets, and a hint of...
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Lucy and Alice Pinot Gris NV

Koonara Lucy and Alice Pinot Gris 2023

Other - Specialty
  • 92
  • $25
  • 2024-2028
Love the little scale indicator for residual sugar on the back label. This is a dry Pinot Gris with a...
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Marchand & Burch Pinot Noir

Marchand & Burch Mount Barrow Pinot Noir 2023

Red Wine - Pinot Noir
  • 95
  • $70
  • 2024-2033
Perfumed and lifted aromas of roses, then dried cranberries, red cherries, red plums, vanilla pods, touch of cloves and dried...
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Marchand & Burch Chardonnay

Marchand & Burch Mount Barker Chardonnay 2023

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 95
  • $90
  • 2024-2030
A reductive, flinty, stuck-match-like opening on the nose. Then, crunchy nectarines, pink grapefruit, sea spray, fresh cream, melted butter, vanilla...
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Freeman Nebbiolo RGB M

Freeman Altura Vineyard Nebbiolo 2022

Red Wine - Nebbiolo
  • 95
  • $55
  • 2024-2038
In the true Nebbiolo style, the nose is all about dried orange peel, cranberries, red cherries, roses, and dried herbs....
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mataro

Tenafeate Creek Wines One Tree Hill Mataro 2023

Other - Specialty
  • 93
  • $30
  • 2024-2026
I always considered Mataro an explosion of aromas and flavours, like a Spanish paella or a corrida. Here, things are...
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tencreek

Tenafeate Creek Wines One Tree Hill Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 93
  • $35
  • 2024-2028
This Cabernet Sauvignon is still in its prime with that capsicum-like opening. Then, aromas of black currant, prunes, crushed violets,...
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MUNDA Walgalu Country Tumbarumba Chardonnay Vintage Onwards RGB

Munda Walgalu Country Chardonnay 2023

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 94
  • $45
  • 2024-2029
From 740m altitude on basalt and granite soil, this second release looks tighter than its predecessor— fragrant white pear, white...
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MUNDA Wadandi Country Chardonnay Margaret River RGB

Munda Wadandi Country Chardonnay 2023

White Wine - Chardonnay
  • 45
  • 92
What you want from your typical Margaret River chardonnay is here: cashews, peaches and cream, hawthorn, pineapple, and warm-oven bread...
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MUNDA Wurundjeri Country Pinot Noir (Yarra Valley) RGB

Munda Wurundjeri Country Pinot Noir 2023

Red Wine - Pinot Noir
  • 95
  • $45
  • 2024-2030
The first Yarra Valley Pinot from Munda comes from a mix of red-brown clay, deep red volcanic soils, and granite....
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MUNDA Kaurna Country Blewitt Springs Syrah RGB

Munda Kaurna Country Syrah 2022

Red Wine - Syrah
  • 91
  • $45
  • 2024-2028
You can spot a McLaren Vale Syrah from miles away. They always have that presence, like a boisterous man who...
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MUNDA Djab Wurrung Country Syrah (Grampians) RGB

Munda Djab Wurrung Country Syrah 2023

Red Wine - Syrah
  • 92
  • $45
  • 2024-2030
I love that countryside-like character in Grampians Syrah. That olive tapenade, that smoked meat, polished leather, small, dark wild berries,...
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MUNDA Ngadjuri + Peramangk Country Grenache RGB

Munda Ngadjuri + Peramangk Grenache 2023

Red Wine - Grenache
  • 95
  • $45
  • 2025-2035
A very delicate nose, then, slowly, it’s showtime for wild strawberries, red currants, raspberries, fragrant roses and rhubarb. The palate...
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Howard Park Great Southern Riesling x

Howard Park Great Southern Riesling 2023

White Wine - Riesling
  • 95
  • $36
  • 2024-2033
A flinty gunpowder note jumps out of the glass at the first sniff. Then, it’s time for salted pink grapefruit,...
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NV Howard Park Museum Riesling x

Howard Park Museum Release Riesling 2018

White Wine - Riesling
  • 94
  • $45
  • 2024-2030
Like stepping in an Alsatian fairytale, the fairy carries a basket full of quince and marmalade. On the palate, a...
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DSW Mars Express Shiraz ST bottle shot

Dewey Station The Mars Express Shiraz 2022

Red Wine - Shiraz
  • 95
  • $27
  • 2024-2045
This young Barossa fellow has a tight nose, tight as a too-tight gentleman bowtie, to begin with. Then, it slowly...
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DSW Venus Express GSM ST bottle shot

Dewey Station The Venus Express GSM 2022

Other - Specialty
  • 95
  • $27
  • 2024-2038
Looking at the expressive label, with the train locomotive shaped bottle of wine, I can picture shining wild black fruits,...
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Monchiero Barolo Montanello

Monchiero Barolo Montanello 2020

Other - Specialty
  • 96
  • $159
  • 2025-2050
Monchiero owns 5% of this Cru (the rest is owned by Tenuta Montanello). On the nose is an explosion of...
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Monchiero Barolo del Comune di Castiglione Falletto

Monchiero Barolo Del Comune Castiglione Falletto 2020

Other - Specialty
  • 95
  • $149
  • 2024-2040
The fruit for this Barolo comes from three hectares within the Penanno Cru. Compared to the other two, it is...
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Stories

Billy Button team

Billy Button

Lisa Cardelli
The first time I met Jo Marsh of Billy Button, I was co-buying wines for Neil Perry’s ex-Rosetta restaurant in...
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From Munda to Glass

Lisa Cardelli
About a month ago I was helping a friend in his wine shop, and I happened to come across Munda...
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