La Villa is a tiny family wine producer run by Marcus and Gail Burns at Spreyton in the north-west of Tasmania that used to be called Emilia, until locals from the Emilia-Romagna part of Italy from which they had taken their inspiration ojected and forced a change of branding. The wines, with Fran Austin and Shane Holloway as consultants, are of high quality across the board but this is particularly interesting; a crisp, dry white made from the savagnin grape that originates in the Jura region of France. This is the first vintage of savagnin from La Villa - and to my knowledge the only one in Tasmania - and it has produced a dry white that's both aromatic and minerally. Delicious drinking for $30.
www.lavillawines.com.au
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