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Lisa Cardelli

Lisa Cardelli is an Italian-born wine professional who has been based in Melbourne since 2010. She worked as a sommelier in some of the city’s leading fine-dining restaurants for over ten years before leaving hospitality to become a wine sales representative. Lisa is now a journalist for Il Globo, the newspaper for Italians in Australia and around the world, where she also curates her own wine column. She continues to write about wine for both local and international publications and is on track to become one of the few prolific bilingual wine writers in Australia. A certified WSET Educator, she teaches at various venues across Melbourne. She also judges at local wine shows and for the prestigious Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards. Lisa was the recipient of the 2022 Wine Communicators of Australia award for Best Published Feature Article, a finalist for the same award in 2024, the recipient of the 2022 Sydney Royal Wine Professional Development Scholarship sponsored by the Len Evans Foundation, and one of twelve carefully selected Len Evans Scholars in 2024.
Guardasole Boca

Tenute Guardasole Boca 2020

A blend of 80% Nebbiolo and 20% Vespolina from a tiny, three hectare, vineyard with 70-year-old vines. Punchy nose with...

Apogee Deluxe Vintage Brut 2021

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

A discreet yet poised nose of raspberries, pomegranate, red currants, black cherries, vanilla, musk, blood plums, and poppy seeds. The...

Apogee Deluxe Vintage Rosé Brut 2021

A single vineyard blend of 51% Pinot Noir, 39% Chardonnay and 10% Meunier. Pink salmon with onion skin hue. An...
Sticks Cabernet Sauvignon

Sticks Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 

This is a medium-bodied style of Yarra Cabernet Sauvignon with pleasant cassis, blackberries, spearmint, roasted capsicum, leather, and tobacco aromas....
AC Sirius Shiraz

Chalk Hill Alpha Crucis Sirius Shiraz 2021

It’s 2021, and it’s still a puppy. The fruit makes a bold statement, all-black and blue fruit, spices, and a...
Block One SHIRAZ Bottle Shot

Bremerton Block One Shiraz 2022 

Elegant nose with poised blueberries, boysenberries, black fruit, pomegranate, milk chocolate, vanilla, rhubarb stick, crushed violets, and a hint of...
Lucy and Alice Pinot Gris NV

Koonara Lucy and Alice Pinot Gris 2023

Love the little scale indicator for residual sugar on the back label. This is a dry Pinot Gris with a...
Marchand & Burch Pinot Noir

Marchand & Burch Mount Barrow Pinot Noir 2023

Perfumed and lifted aromas of roses, then dried cranberries, red cherries, red plums, vanilla pods, touch of cloves and dried...
Marchand & Burch Chardonnay

Marchand & Burch Mount Barker Chardonnay 2023

A reductive, flinty, stuck-match-like opening on the nose. Then, crunchy nectarines, pink grapefruit, sea spray, fresh cream, melted butter, vanilla...
Freeman Nebbiolo RGB M

Freeman Altura Vineyard Nebbiolo 2022

In the true Nebbiolo style, the nose is all about dried orange peel, cranberries, red cherries, roses, and dried herbs....
mataro

Tenafeate Creek Wines One Tree Hill Mataro 2023

I always considered Mataro an explosion of aromas and flavours, like a Spanish paella or a corrida. Here, things are...
tencreek

Tenafeate Creek Wines One Tree Hill Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

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

Munda Walgalu Country Chardonnay 2023

From 740m altitude on basalt and granite soil, this second release looks tighter than its predecessor— fragrant white pear, white...
MUNDA Wadandi Country Chardonnay Margaret River RGB

Munda Wadandi Country Chardonnay 2023

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

Munda Wurundjeri Country Pinot Noir 2023

The first Yarra Valley Pinot from Munda comes from a mix of red-brown clay, deep red volcanic soils, and granite....
MUNDA Kaurna Country Blewitt Springs Syrah RGB

Munda Kaurna Country Syrah 2022

You can spot a McLaren Vale Syrah from miles away. They always have that presence, like a boisterous man who...
MUNDA Djab Wurrung Country Syrah (Grampians) RGB

Munda Djab Wurrung Country Syrah 2023

I love that countryside-like character in Grampians Syrah. That olive tapenade, that smoked meat, polished leather, small, dark wild berries,...
MUNDA Ngadjuri + Peramangk Country Grenache RGB

Munda Ngadjuri + Peramangk Grenache 2023

A very delicate nose, then, slowly, it’s showtime for wild strawberries, red currants, raspberries, fragrant roses and rhubarb. The palate...
Howard Park Great Southern Riesling x

Howard Park Great Southern Riesling 2023

A flinty gunpowder note jumps out of the glass at the first sniff. Then, it’s time for salted pink grapefruit,...
NV Howard Park Museum Riesling x

Howard Park Museum Release Riesling 2018

Like stepping in an Alsatian fairytale, the fairy carries a basket full of quince and marmalade. On the palate, a...
DSW Mars Express Shiraz ST bottle shot

Dewey Station The Mars Express Shiraz 2022

This young Barossa fellow has a tight nose, tight as a too-tight gentleman bowtie, to begin with. Then, it slowly...
DSW Venus Express GSM ST bottle shot

Dewey Station The Venus Express GSM 2022

Looking at the expressive label, with the train locomotive shaped bottle of wine, I can picture shining wild black fruits,...
Monchiero Barolo Montanello

Monchiero Barolo Montanello 2020

Monchiero owns 5% of this Cru (the rest is owned by Tenuta Montanello). On the nose is an explosion of...

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Central Dozen

A Dozen Reasons to Look South

A selection of Central Otago Pinot Noir from 2023 Call it a natural attraction to the pull of lands at...
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Uncorking Trentino with Gruppo Mezzacorona

Long gone are the days when Trentino, in the far north of Italy, was seen merely as a seasonal playground...
McWilliams Tawny Port

Calabria Family Wines: 80 years in the making

It was the end of the 1920s when Francesco Calabria decided to leave his homeland in Southern Italy in search...
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The Langhorne Creek Wine Guide 2026

By Lisa Cardelli Often described as the “workhorse” or “blending bowl” of major South Australian wine brands, Langhorne Creek has...
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House of Arras: Defying Time and Expectations

A Burgundy expert once told me that white Burgundy wouldn’t age gracefully past ten years. The hot take there was...
Te Muna Vineyard

Craggy Range: Attention to Detail into the Future

At the end of the last (sigh again) Family of Twelve Tutorial in 2019, I was generously hosted by the...
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