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Elanto – Australia's most ambitious new vineyard?

Elanto Vineyard

Max is impressed by a new project in southern Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, and presents tasting notes on their first releases and those of some of their neighbours.

It’s the scale of the place that strikes me when I drive through the gate at Elanto Vineyard for the first time. The scale – and the ambition.

It’s a cold but sunny August day when I visit. I’ve been hearing for a few years now about this new project that Mornington Peninsula winemaker Sandro Mosele has been working on, but until now I haven’t seen it for myself. I knew it was...