Bloomfield Grüner Veltliner 2024
- 95
- $38
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Described by Lauren Hansen as zesty, bright and textural. She nails the point of this wine in three words like pros soms would do on a busy Saturday night service. Lauren, you have a bright future as a sommelier whenever you want to take a break from winemaking. To add to the prose, it feels like stepping into a summer field in full bloom. Add the zestiness of freshly cut grass, the crisp air of the countryside near the coast, sunshine and blue sky (I mean, look also at the colour), and that’s precisely what this wine is all about. It also has that pungency and gentle spiciness of freshly grated radish, so damn typical of the variety, like it or not. I see the texture, that phenolic grip that I often describe (wrongly or rightly) as wet clay. On the palate are reverberating wet river stones and crunchy yellow apples with a touch of summer hay. It’s a wine that gives much pleasure, bouncing around and touching every corner of the palate. It is crunchy, exuberant, and has a lot of personality. It just works! I can already see the market for this wine, but I don’t want to pigeonhole anyone anymore, especially after the latest federal elections!
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.
