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Just about finished pruning the 73yo estate Cabernet sauvignon and I found this! A very long cane...approximately 4.2 me...
04/09/2026

Just about finished pruning the 73yo estate Cabernet sauvignon and I found this! A very long cane...approximately 4.2 metres long with 45 nodes! Wow wee!

Looking for the perfect way to treat Dad this Father’s Day? Bring him along for an afternoon of great wine and even bett...
04/09/2026

Looking for the perfect way to treat Dad this Father’s Day? Bring him along for an afternoon of great wine and even better company. 🍇

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02/09/2026

Last week I caught up with an old mate, Tom Keelan, one of the nicest blokes in the wine industry, which prompted me to dig up one of his wines for this week's Wine Back Wednesday. So today I am going to look at the 2022 Adelaide Hills Sangiovese, although first, a bit of background.

In 2002, Tom and his wife, Rebecca, had a parcel of fruit that was deemed "not good enough" by one of the major wine companies, so they decided to process it themselves. The resultant wine was very well received and got plenty of 3rd party recognition, proving that the fruit was worthy, especially in the right hands. That was the birth of the Pawn Wine Co, aptly named after feeling that they were just pawns in a global wine game.

The portfolio now includes Grüner veltliner, Pinot grigio, Fiano, Sauvignon blanc, Shiraz, Montepulciano and Sangiovese. Sangiovese comes from the Latin saguis Jovis or Jupiter's blood and is grown predominantly in subregions of Tuscany, being Chianti, Montalcino and Montepulciano (yes Montepulciano - Although the variety of the same name hails from Abruzzo, on the central east coast of Italy).

This wine comes from a vineyard in Macclesfield, in the southern Adelaide Hills and utilises three clones, Piccolo (small berries), Brunel (grosse or large berries) and MAT. 2022 had average yilds of 5t per hectare, the weather was mild through the growing and ripenkng season, with some rain in late January, although overall very good conditions.

Fermented in an open top fermenter, with the Piccolo clone used as whole berries (a known technique using these small berries to increase palate complexity - influenced by the skin to juice ratio of these smaller berries). Pressed off and matured in older US oak for nine months.

Lovely red and purple fruits, namely cherries and plums, spice, fresh and grilled meats, it actually smells fresh and crunchy...with a dry palate that continues with the red fruits vein, fresh, crunchy natural acidity (a hallmark of many Italian varieties), fine tannins. Complex enough, yet easy drinking.

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28/08/2026

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