Sagrantino Wines

There is a real ground swell of love for the Mediterranean varieties in Mclaren Vale and wines like this show why - a rich and dense red wine with hearty flavours and firm tannins. Meat friendly and full flavoured this is great full bodied wine.

As the Australian food culture of shared plates and Tapas takes off, the wines we drink reflect a more European leaning too. This rustic Italian from Terra Felix in Victoria is spot on when it comes to food –friendly red styles. Imbued with black ...

Deep, dark red colour, with purple tinges. Dense, brooding aroma with walnut and oak characters, shy blue fruits, and even smells like it's going to be a tannic wine! Which it is. The palate is very firm and tight, with a vise-like grip and densel...

Amazing name for a wine. Apparently, according to D'Arenberg, the word cenosilicaphobic' is the fear of an empty glass. The wine itself is a blend of little known (in Australia) grape varieties sagrantino (91 percent) and cinsault. Bonus points ...

Good crimson-purple; has similarities to the Amadio Sagrantino, except that there is more of everything, the least difference being the 0.5% more alcohol in this wine; right now the spicy, juicy freshness of the Amadio is more attractive, but this...

The colour is distinctly less brilliant than that of the Aglianico, losing the tinge of purple; the bouquet has dark fruit aromas that carry through in a slightly altered fashion to the palate; here there are flavours of stewed plum, spiced cake a...

Pale salmon-pink; a skilfully made rose, barrel-fermented (old oak) and dry, yet has delicious red fruit nuances and a finely textured and structured palate; impressive length.

Big, robust wine with some intense aromas and a well-textured palate that has lovely flavour concentration and complexity.

Ripe and earthy on the nose, and with a very approachable, ripe, rich, cherry palate.

An attractive, distinctive nose of freshly roasted chestnuts, blueberry, spearmint and violets. The palate is typically Italian - medium bodied in weight but packing a punch. Initially soft and round the wine then displays more weight and power...

Intensely juicy aromas of rhubarb stewed fruits, cherry, raspberry all those bright red and full flavour fruits. The back palate is very subtle but offers some great secondary characteristics with toasty oak and a delicate but necessarily obvious ...

The Italian tannins storm the palate from the first instance, taking no prisoners, leaving the bright red fruit in chains from which it may or may not break free.

The Chalmers family has developed an integrated vine-growing, grape-growing and winemaking business that explores the fringe of mostly Italian grape varieties, such as this Sagrantino. There's a mix of berries and a foxy, almost feral, gamy comple...

Our flagship wine, Sagrantino holds it own for one of the best Italian varieties originating from Umbria. We have the largest planting of Sagrantino grapes in Australia. This is a garnet-red coloured wine with a faint scent of violet petals, en...

Light, but slightly deeper than Aglianico; wild herbs and oriental spices, plus largely hidden tannins until they bite like a hidden snake.