Little Wine Co Vermentino 2025

This delicious Italian variety is fast becoming a firm favourite among local wine lovers and surely headed for mainstream status. It is certainly well suited to the Hunter Valley and our warmer regions. It may surprise some of our more experienced (read older) wine lovers to discover that these grapes came from the legendary Roxburgh Vineyard in the Upper Hunter Valley. This was the source of some of Australia’s earliest cult Chardonnays. The variety is most certainly a grape which is suited to late picking, with harvesting taking place after the team had brought in all of their Hunter reds. Pale lemon, the nose weaves through notes of florals, apricot kernels, stone fruits and crushed nuts. It is actually worth giving this time in the glass, or even better a decanter. That will help to see all of its glories unfurl. The wine has a minerally support and a lingering finish. It is a fine example of the variety. Enjoy it over the next three to four years.