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.
About this wine from the winemaker: “This shows the amazing intensity of the 2022 vintage. There’s lots of primary fruit—lemon essence, grapefruit and nectarine, and the pure fruit density has integrated the winemaking elements brilliantly. There’s superb salty creaminess from the lees plus lovely barrel spice, and the acid drive is something special.” – Paul Scorpo
Review for 2021 – 95 points, Jane Faulkner for Halliday Wine Companion “One of my go-to peninsula chardonnays for its quality, complexity and flavour profile. This is rather racy with its moreish acidity but it’s also layered with fruit, creamy, roasted cashew lees and some white miso. Added palate weight thanks to a pull of phenolics, which add to the mouthfeel. And this does feel good.”
94+ points, Gary Walsh, The Wine Front “Very intense. Pink grapefruit, nectarine, cinnamon and cedar. Tight mouth-watering citrus acidity, flinty, a little oatmeal and savoury flourishes, real lemonade, with lemongrass and ginger on a firm and long finish. Lots of energy and very good.”
RRP $62 Special Price $49.99 when you buy 6 or more of this wine
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