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Region || Tabilk, Central Victoria
Description || When searching for an Italian red variety to plant, I knew I wanted to produce a rich and flavoursome wine, good to drink with a hearty, slow-cooked ragu over winter, but also to suit our warm and sunny climate. Primitivo, a native of sun-soaked southern Italy, inky red and full of spicy blackberry flavours, was the perfect choice. To ensure the flavours were deep and concentrated, we restricted crop levels to one bunch per shoot: time consuming but worth it. We built racks into two old silos on the farm, where one-third of the crop was dried to further concentrate the fruit flavours. These raisined and intensely flavoured grapes were then fermented with the rest of the crop—a modern Australian spin on an age-old winemaking tradition.