The Pizzini families vision is to entrench themselves as Australia’s premium producer of fine Italian style wines.With twenty-five years of “hands on” viticultural experience with both international and Italian varietals and experimentation in the winery they are setting the quality agenda in Victoria’s snow capped King Valley.
The nose is beautifully aromatic, showing rose water, musk, dried rose petals, and raspberry lemonade. The palate is intense and refreshingly sweet, it explodes in your mouth with fresh raspberries and strawberries and tickles with fresh lime; one mouthful and you will be refreshed!! Add mint, lime, ginger and ice, and enjoy in the sunshine.
This wine is a light straw colour with lime hues. The nose explodes from the glass with sweets herbet, lemon, lime and jasmine aromas. Yeasty and earthy characters add complexity, with added brioche notes. The palate is creamy and refreshing zingy with lemon, lime acidity. The wine has lovely length and softness with a touch of sweetness but a long dry finish. Serve with Sydney rock oysters or lightly grilled scallops topped with lemon zest.
Pears & apples, apples & pears, this light straw coloured wine an abundance of these characters. Nashi pears and red delicious apples jump out of the glass, with aromas of lemon zest, lime and cantaloupe following. These carry through to the palate, where they enhance by lovely texture and bright acidity. This Pinot Grigio has great length, depth and lingering flavours and is a perfect accompaniment to char-grilled prawns.
Light pale straw colour with olive green hue.The wine has lovely complex aromas of ripe tropical fruits, banana, cinnamon spiced pears, white peach and toasty nutty characters.
The palate is smooth, soft and round. It has mouth filling texture and nicely balanced acidity with flavours of ripe pears, pineapple and green apple. Best served with crispy pork belly with a white wine reduction.
The wine is deep brick red in colour with a violet hue. Vibrant and fresh aromas of cherry, plum, blackberry and red berries lead to a lively and juicy palate. This wine is very approachable and easy drinking, and is the perfect partner to a traditional Italian pizza.
This vibrant wine is brick red in colour with a cherry hue. The nose shows cherries and dried herbs, which follow through to spiced plums and dark chocolate characters. This fresh Sangiovese has a generous mouthfeel and rich flavours of plum, maraschino cherry and juicy raspberries, with delicate tannins finishing it perfectly. This wine is the ideal accompaniment to gnocchi Bolognese just like Nonna used to make.
The wine is a dark plum colour with purple hues. The nose displays complex aromas of dark cherries, plums, violets and sweet spices. As the wine opens up spices, dried herbs, and earthy undertones develop. The palate is soft and fleshy flavours of plums and cherries and lovely long chalky tannins. Serve this wine with duck confit with a rich plum jus.
The wine is deep cherry in colour with a brick red hue. On the nose, intense cherries and ripe plums are balanced by subtle red fruit and spices; then as the wine opens up, leather, earth, star anise and dry herbs emerge. The palate is youthful and fresh, with firm yet chalky tannins.The wine has concentration and elegance with lovely balanced acidity and a long persistent finish. Enjoy this wine with a flame grilled rib eye on the bone, garlic butter and truffled roasted potatoes.
A carefully crafted wine which includes Sangiovese, Nebbiolo, Cabernet, Shiraz and Teroldego fruit. This wine is amazingly complex and deliciously heady. Aromas of berries, cherries, spice and herbal elements lead to an elegantly layered palate with abundant spices, dried herbs, liquorice and tar.
The 2005 Coronamento Nebbiolo is a less fruit driven wine with red liquorice, red plums, exotic spice, saffron and hints of leather, earth and toasted hazelnuts on the nose. The palate has impressive power and grace, it is deep and even-handed with a wealth of ripe red cherry fruit flavours, supple, yet commanding tannins which are every long, even and juicy. This wine is an iron fist in a velvet glove that has many, many years ahead of it.
The nose shows plenty of fragrance with fresh-cut pear, quince, sweet white floral perfume and the merest hints of citrus and fresh almond. The palate is crisp, dry and fresh, with pear and apple flavour sitting bright and crunchy from start to mouth-watering finish.
Pietra Rossa is Italian for red stone in reference to the soils the fruit for this wine comes from. Vibrant and mouth-watering aromas of cherries, raspberries and sweet herbs follow through onto the beautifully structured palate. It is juicy, fleshy and very drinkable.
Alfredo and Katrina Pizzini built Pizzini Wines based on their passions and their commitment to family and Pizzini’s Italian heritage. Their winemaking dream began in 1978 when they planted the first vines on the property, then in 1994 the first wine under the Pizzini label was produced.
Today Alfredo and Katrina's four adult children Natalie, Joel, Carlo and Nicole all work in the business alongside them.
At the beginning of the 2000s the family decided to concentrate on the production of Italian varietals. New vineyard sites were planted with the latest and best clones available in Australia including Sangiovese, Pinot Grigio, Brachetto, Nebbiolo and Prosecco. Over this time, Alfredo and Joel evaluated sites post-vintage to determine the future of the varieties on these particular sites. If the site consistently produced below standard fruit, the vines were grafted over to a variety more suited to the terrain.
The Pizzini families vision is to entrench themselves as Australia’s premium producer of fine Italian style wines.With twenty-five years of “hands on” viticultural experience with both international and Italian varietals and experimentation in the winery they are setting the quality agenda in Victoria’s snow capped King Valley.