Curly Flat White Pinot 2025

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I don’t often come across red grapes vinified as white. I’ve seen examples like white Dolcetto and even white Pinot Noir along the way, but this feels a little different from the rest. The colour sits in an onion-skin of freshly picked wild strawberries, white cherries, watermelon, and delicate floral notes of rosewater lead the way. The mid-palate is packed with vibrant, summery flavours, while a very gentle impression of tannin gently builds, framing a delicate yet convincing savoury length. I like it.

Lisa Cardelli
Wine Critic at Winepilot

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.

Journalist and Italian specialist
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Variety: Other, Specialty