Description

Paul Scorpo has been quietly crafting beautiful wines in Mornington Peninsula alongside Australia’s top shelf cool climate winegrowers.

One of Paul Scorpo’s first jobs in life was in the cellar at Penfolds Barossa Valley winery. Since then the wheel has turned full circle through teaching politics, designing championship golf courses and running a successful landscape architecture business back to following his green thumb and planting a family vineyard on the Mornington Peninsula.

After extensive research of site and soil characteristics on the Peninsula, he settled on an old apple orchard at Merricks North with ancient clay soils, protection from the harsh cold winds coming off the southern ocean, a gentle slope and dual aspects, which combine to provide the site with ideal ripening conditions for a range of varieties. Paul and his family and their connection to the land are uncompromising in his quest to produce the area’s finest wines with closer plantings, more clonal selections. Vines are planted on north east slope (a brilliant sun trap) on red clay soils derived from Eocene volcanics dating back 40 million years. He has championed Pinot Gris which is also planted on the southwest slope towards Port Phillip Bay. Fine wine is in the Scorpo blood across generations from Sicily, Sardinia and Australia. Paul sources small parcels of fruit from other vineyards he manages on the peninsula to use in the Aubaine and Noirien wines. Scorpo Wines have depth, refinement and texture. They are recognised as a leader among the quality-focused producers of the Mornington Peninsula.

An open and elegant bouquet of raspberry, mulberry, cranberry and cherry will lead to great aromatic complexity as the wine matures. Earthly forest floor and hints of toast add another layer of complexity. The palate is balanced, composed and collected. It’s purity and definition can take the taster aback. Fine, silky tannins display a praphite-like structure with integrated acid and purity, complimented by delicate red fruits of cherries and raspberries.

94 points, Gary Walsh, The Wine Front “A blend of vineyards, I believe. Comune di Mornington, if you like. Poached strawberry, blood orange, spice. It’s juicy and red fruited, sappy and a little savoury, pleasing amaro tang too, with fine pumice stone tannin offering appropriate grip, finishing bright and long. Lots of energy and charm, and it’s an altogether good sort of Pinot Noir. Frisky. Complex. Delicious.”

91 points, Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion “Refreshingly savoury overall, yet starts with a potpourri perfume then flavours of spiced cherries and cedary oak, not much, just enough. Some chinotto and blood orange in the mix and while the tannins are somewhat drying on the finish, with food, this sings.”

RRP $68 Our Price $63.99 – LAST BOTTLES!!