The Winery Fat Sparrow of Heathcote of Victoria

Winery Fat Sparrow - Sangiovese
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Victoria.
It is located in Heathcote in the region of Victoria

The Winery Fat Sparrow is one of the best wineries to follow in Heathcote.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Heathcote to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Fat Sparrow wines

Looking for the best Winery Fat Sparrow wines in Heathcote among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Fat Sparrow wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Fat Sparrow wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Fat Sparrow

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Fat Sparrow

How Winery Fat Sparrow wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or pork such as recipes of stewed beef heart, alsatian fondue or home-made white pudding.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Fat Sparrow

  • 2016With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Fat Sparrow.

  • Sangiovese
  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discovering the wine region of Heathcote

The wine region of Heathcote is located in the region of Central Victoria of Victoria of Australia. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Wild Duck Creek Estate or the Domaine Wild Duck Creek Estate produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Heathcote are Cabernet franc, Malbec and Vermentino, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Heathcote often reveals types of flavors of cream, cigar or forest floor and sometimes also flavors of aniseed, pencil shavings or dried fruit.

In the mouth of Heathcote is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 231 estates and châteaux in the of Heathcote, producing 580 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Heathcote go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Fat Sparrow

Planning a wine route in the of Heathcote? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Fat Sparrow.

Discover the grape variety: Sangiovese

Originally from Italy, it is the famous Sangiovese of Tuscany producing the famous wines of Brunello de Montalcino and Chianti. This variety is registered in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1. According to recent genetic analysis, it is the result of a natural cross between the almost unknown Calabrese di Montenuovo (mother) and Ciliegiolo (father).

News about Winery Fat Sparrow and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Hitting the right note

Last year, there was much mirth on wine Twitter about a particularly excruciating tasting note. You’re right. The wine trade needs to get out more. But still… this one was a beauty. It began well enough – really quite beautiful, in fact. But before long the imaginative descriptions were getting more ornate and strained. It moved from poetic to meaningless before finishing with a reference to Burnt Norton – the first of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets – that put it firmly in Private Eye magazine’s ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

The word of the wine: Rancio

Odour and taste characteristic of certain wines that have undergone oxidative maturation, i.e. in contact with oxygen (vin jaune du Jura, dry rancio du Roussillon, maury, banyuls, rivesaltes, etc.).