Mandi Friulano Skin Ed XI 2022 (6 Bottles) Mildura, Victoria

by Fine Wine Cellars

$152.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

Italian expat Denis Pasut planted his Mildura vineyard in the 1990s, with the goal of bringing the varieties of Friuli-Venezia to Australia. Farmed increasingly organically, this is the source of the Friulano, and Malvasia for this release from Mandi.

Naturally fermented on skins for 11 days, this wine is a bright, juicy, and shiny textural example of what makes Friulano and skin-contact such great bed-buddies. They work so well together, as the nutty, spicy, stone fruit characters of Friulano are given a textural turbo boost, when left on skins.

Blue skies, and picnic blankets are in order here.

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About Mandi

Mandi is a different story about Mildura fruit, a celebration of sunshine, limestone soils, passion, grit and sheer bounty. Kevin McCarthy works with two superb alternative-grape-variety vineyards to lay bare the pleasures of the river and what Australia can offer beyond the norm, regarding both our expectations from classic French varietals, and the quality from what has historically been regarded as a quantity-focused region of Australia.

Winemaker Kevin McCarthy developed a name for himself as something of a renegade in the Australian winemaking scene. One of the first producers in Australia to play around with skin-contact whites with Quealy, he was probably the reason for the question: Are orange wines from Orange?

His introduction to Mildura was the early 1990s, looking for fruit to make up for a poor Mornington vintage. Here he found a second home, amongst Italian varietal pioneers. Sourcing his grapes for Mandi from the Chalmers and Pusat family vineyards this is an exciting project to keep an eye on.

Fine Wine Cellars

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