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.
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Reviews for 2024 – 94 points, Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion “Such an appealing drink, with stone fruit and pears, ginger spice and creamy lees. There’s texture, fine, lemony acidity and everything comes together harmoniously as one. It’s a tip-top drop.”
94 points, Gary Walsh, The Wine Front ” A staple and a benchmark for MP (Mornington Peninsula) PG. Pear, apple studded with cinnamon spice. It’s fresh, but juicy, all the pear and poached apple, and again the spice, some lime rind and citrus, a dusty powdery texture, balanced acidity with a fresh finish of excellent length. This is bang on. The balance between freshness and flavour is what makes it. A by the glass delight, I think.”
RRP $43 Our Special Price $34.99 when you buy 6 or more of this wine
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