Torzi Matthews is a food and winemaking partnership between Domenic Torzi and Tracy Matthews. Both share a passion and firm conviction of appreciating the value of heritage in the crafting of their wines and olive produce. In 1996 they stumbled across a small, frost-pocketed hollow in the beautiful Mt McKenzie, Eden Valley and fell in love with the area for its remoteness and its diverse thin soils.

Native family white grape of Molise Abruzzi dry grown here in the Barossa Valley from a single vineyard dating back to 1905.

What a great wine. White peach, aniseed, ripe lemon like the proper Italian ones where you can eat the skin kind of deal, peanuts, lemon verbena. It’s bright and laden with sweet lemon and grapefruit, plenty of tang and energy, peppery powdery tannin grip, saline and savoury, with a pithy finish of excellent length. Almonds in the aftertaste. Perhaps a little more frisky and nervous than the 2021, though I’d suggest time will be very kind to it. Date: Nov 2023; Alcohol: 12.5%; Price: $28; Closure: Screwcap; Drink: 2024-2029+; Rated: 94+ Points; Gary Walsh; The Wine Front