Munda Ngadjuri + Peramangk Grenache 2023
- 95
- $45
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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A very delicate nose, then, slowly, it’s showtime for wild strawberries, red currants, raspberries, fragrant roses and rhubarb. The palate is delightful; the red fruit is on the verge of being candied. But, good news, the alcohol doesn’t hit you in the face, the moderate acidity lingers, and that reserved fruit slowly rolls across the tongue, like words spelled by a non-English speaker (except me because I speak too fast). From 80-year-old vines from Vine Vale. As I keep typing, the fruit profile is still mingling around, rightfully showing me the middle finger and saying: “I’m here; just stop for a moment and look at me”.
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.
