Superb wines from minutely defined plots thanks to a winemaker with no formal training (photo credit: Mike Smith).
Amelia Nolan, managing director and winemaker at Alkina in the Barossa Valley, is not your typical Australian winemaker, if there is such a thing. As she told me in an email after the masterclass that she and Alkina's Italian consultant Alberto Antonini held in the early summer in London, she grew up on a farm just north of Coonawarra in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia. The farm, which had been established by her great-grandparents at the beginning of the 20th...