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*Wine Region*	King Valley, Victoria
*Wine Maker*	Alfred Pizzini, Joel Pizzini
The King Valley wine region is located in Victoria’s north east – about three hours north of Melbourne and seven hours south of Sydney. One of the most picturesque and unspoilt valley’s in Australia. The King Valley wine region is cool climate and produces in excess of eighteen thousand tonnes of fruit annually. The region is unique as it is able to produce excellent fruit quality consistently, as well as a wide array of fruit types from traditional international varieties to the interesting Italian varieties.
In the 1970’s the tobacco industry began to change in Australia as a quota system for the growing and sale of tobacco was being introduced. Around this time Roberto’s sons Rinaldo and Alfred began to take more interest in the businesses future and convinced Roberto that diversification to another industry was necessary for the business to prosper. Many options were discussed including the planting of blueberries. At this time Brown Brothers of Milawa were looking to expand their winemaking operations and were looking for local farmers to plant grapes. In 1978 Alfred and Rinaldo planted their first thirty acres of Riesling vines. Over the next decade Alfred and his wife Katrina planted Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Malbec and Shiraz, all of the fruit produced from these vines was sold to different winemaking companies around Australia. Towards the mid 1980’s Alfred began to experiment in the vineyard by planting two relatively unknown Northern Italian red grape varieties, Nebbiolo and Sangiovese.
In 1983 in Australia there were very few producers of Nebbiolo and Sangiovese let alone nurseries stocking Nebbiolo and Sangiovese vines, so it took a couple of years for Alfred to initially take some Nebbiolo cuttings to Charles Sturt University in Wagga and for these to be green cultured and propagated to get enough stock for grafting a full vineyard. In 1985 Alfred planted 35 vines which in 1986 gave enough buds to graft four acres. In 1994 Alfred and Katrina began the Pizzini wine label with a Chardonnay. Initially the wine was made by John Ellis of Hanging Rock, but over time Alfred choose to bring the winemaking back to the King Valley. Now the wines are made by Joel Pizzini, Alfred and Katrina’s son. Joel has studied winemaking at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga and completed three vintages in the Piemonte and Tuscany regions of Italy.
Pizzini’s vineyard has plantings of vines on both the gentle undulating slopes of the King Valley hills as well as the second terrace flats leading to the King River. The vineyard has a well drained north easterly aspect with red volcanic soils containing a high level of decaying basalt on the slopes and gravely, sandy clay loam soils on the second terrace.
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Pizzini Arneis - 2011

King Valley, Victoria.

$22.50

Pizzini Coronamento Reserve Nebbiolo - 2004

King Valley, Victoria.

$135.00

Pizzini ll Barone Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz Sangiovese Nebbiolo - 2006

King Valley, Victoria.

$39.90

Pizzini Nebbiolo - 2008

King Valley, Victoria.

$54.90

Pizzini Pinot Grigio - 2011

King Valley, Victoria.

$19.50

Pizzini Riesling - 2011

King Valley, Victoria.

$16.90

Pizzini Rosetta Sangiovese Rose - 2011

King Valley, Victoria.

$17.50

Pizzini Rubacuori Reserve Sangiovese - 2004

King Valley, Victoria.

$105.00

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