Zonte’s Footstep
4 1/2 Stars - James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2012
Langhorne Creek, McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley and Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia
www.zontesfootstep.com.au
Zonte’s Footstep is a proudly independent Australian wine company. We take our vineyards and our wine, but not ourselves, seriously. Mr. Ben Riggs and Zar Brooks teamed together with a group of mates to launch Zonte’s Footstep from vintage 2003 and the wines are now at the vanguard of a revolution of Australian wine styles. Zonte’s Footstep is named after a 19th century Zante currant vineyard as new plantings follow the original footstep. The currant business dried up, but Zonte’s Footstep became our blueprint… In 2003 we pooled old white utes and new-ish tractors to grow the best grapes from the best vineyards. All we want to do is taste our fruit in our wine, so we charged our reigning winemaker, Mr. Ben Riggs, with one goal; to make wine true to vineyard so long as it is a bloody good drink!
The truth is out there in the vineyard but the proof is in the bottle.
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Zonte’s Footstep
“Zonte’s Footstep; Jump on board this fabulously priced wine and enjoy one of the best value wines in the Southern Hemisphere.”
Matthew Jukes
“4 1/2 star winery. (…) The wine quality is as good as the prices are modest. (…).”
James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2012
Zonte’s Footstep ‘Lake Doctor’ Shiraz Viognier
4/5 stars (2009 vintage)
“Well-made, chunky wine with a fruit-driven nose and a big, powerful, jammy palate with clean flavours edged with herbal-like characters.”
Winestate, July/August 2011
‘Best Shiraz’ and Double Gold Medal (2009 vintage)
San Francisco International Wine Competition 2011
90/100 points (2009 vintage)
Harvey Steiman, Wine Spectator, July 2011
Zonte’s Foostep ‘Doctoressa di Lago’ Pinot Grigio
‘Top in category’ 4.5/5 stars (2010 vintage)
“‘Personality Plus’ was how one judge described this interesting wine. Beautiful focus and purity of floral/pear fruit with good integration of attractive phenolic characters.”
Winestate Magazine, April 2011
Zonte’s Footstep ‘Canto di Lago’ Sangiovese Barbera
‘Top in category’ 4/5 stars (2010 vintage)
“Lovely oak/red berry nose and beautifully long, rich palate that’s bright with juicy reds and some mouth-puckering tannins.”
Winestate Magazine, April 2011
Zonte’s Footstep‘Violet Beauregard’ Malbec
91/100 points (2009 vintage)
“Strong purple-crimson; rich and supple black fruits of every description, with a touch of dark chocolate lurking in the cracks, makes for a wine that one writer of note would describe as slurpable. Screwcap.”
James Halliday, www.winecompanion.com.au
Zonte’s Footstep Savignin Blanc
Zonte’s Footstep has been on quest to find and grow the world’s best white varieties for more than a decade. A rare variety we planted was later to have its DNA tested and be correctly identified as another. So the artist formerly nicknamed ‘Alby’s Reno’ at Zonte’s Footstep became The Love Symbol Savignin Blanc.
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