Dilettante / Clare Valley, SA

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Winemaker Marnie Roberts, a Clare Valley inhabitant since 2008, is best known for her excellent label Matriarch and Rogue, specialising in Italian and alternative varieties.

Marnie was offered Sangiovese from the Wakefield Vineyard in southern Clare several years ago.  M&R’s Sangiovese source was covered, but the fruit was too good to pass up, so Dilettante was born as an unashamed fun side project. The offering has since expanded with the release of a delicious and varietally correct Fiano, treading the line between concentration and texture versus freshness.

The naming is derived from Italian Dilettare, meaning ‘to delight’.

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  • Dilettante Sangiovese 2022

     $ 25.00 incl. GST

    From a single vineyard, fruit is handled as minimally as possible, coaxed to bottle via wild fermentation and raising in old oak, no fining or filtration, and just a dot of sulphur at bottling. Ultra juicy, soft and slurpable, a mid-weight expression with an array of cherry flavours and gentle tannins, absolutely made for pizza and pasta. A fun, widely appealing wine.

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  • Dilettante Fiano 2024

     $ 25.00 incl. GST

    From a single site in Leasingham, wild fermented.  20% of the fruit is left on skins for four days to build texture, all fruit fermented and aged in stainless steel.

    White gold in the glass with an expressive nose of green grapes, almond paste, honeysuckle, tangerine and apricots.  Structurally interesting, balances a little oiliness with cut from acidity, texture meets tension. Its almond paste/almond meal note gives a bittering balance, also offering up apricot and tropical fruit flavours.  Solid concentration and length, a sight slipperiness to the finish, varietal and nicely poised.

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