2024 Ravensworth Regional Sangiovese

94 POINTS

Jane Faulkner - Halliday Wine Companion

Sourced from sites across Hilltops and Canberra District. This has morphed into an excellent, composed and highly appealing drink; thankfully a Margherita pizza turned up while tasting this and, as a food pairing, worked a treat. This balances out the red cherries and pips, fresh herbs and pomegranate/cranberry tang to a savouriness, with warm spices. It's a touch ferrous, too. It comes across as just medium bodied, invigorating and enlivened by bright acidity and lithe, textural tannins.

92 POINTS

Mike Bennie - The Wine Front

A combo of Hilltops and Canberra District for the sangio. In the dead of a coldest night in Sydney, at the Vivid Fire Kitchen activation, I was standing in a tent, with a freezing breeze in an icy bypass in that space, and espoused how good winemaker Bryan Martin was with sangio at a masterclass, and someone brought me a very hot, heavily cumin-laced lamb skewer that was cooked over coals, and the world made so much sense with this wine in hand. Oh my goodness. A snappy, crunchy, true to form, crisp and clean red of just under medium weight, tart blood orange meets pomegranate juice, red cherry and red plum with dustings of sweet spice and dried herbs. A little amaro-like bitterness in there too, a cool, slightly minty and anise finish follows. Nouveau sangio vibes, almost. It is really nice to drink, like, really. Yeahhh.