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King Valley – Victoria’s Cool Climate Wine Region

King Valley: The Little Italy of Victoria

It might be a wine lover’s dream to land in the beautiful vineyards of Italy and savour the country’s amazing wines and other delicacies. Why cross oceans when you have Italy a few miles away? King Valley in Victoria, synonymously pronounced as the ‘Little Italy’, is a cluster of many small and diverse sub-regions characterised […]

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Oz Wine Facts – Dolcetto Wines

Dolcetto wine facts

Dolcetto is a black grape variety most widely planted in the Piedmont region of Italy. While one theory suggests that this dark-skinned grape originated in the Piedmontese village of Dogliani, another one claims that this grape variety experienced its origins in France, and was introduced in Monferrato sometime during the 11th century.  Although the Italian […]

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