La Cantina Wines from the King Valley develop a following in Sydney

Nestled in the heart of the King Valley, North East Victoria, is the Corsini family’s vineyard and winery. They use traditional methods passed down through the generations.

The first blocks of La Cantina’s  vineyard were planted in the early 1980s, with blocks of Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Riesling, Chardonnay and Dolcetto. This was largely instigated by Brown Brothers of Milawa , to whom they were  contracted at the time.

In 1997 Gino and Carmel Corsini decided to release their own label after the popularity of their homemade wine grew amongst family and friends.This led to building and opening the Tuscan style stone cellar door of La Cantina King Valley.This was then followed by plantings of Pinot Grigio, Sangiovese, Nebbiolo, Tempranillo, Barbera, and more recently Saperavi,(the ancient Georgian variety)  with the vineyard being very well suited to these alternative European varieties.

Their wines are beautiful, different to many modern styles but delicious! The Corsini family has a passion for making traditional, no added preservative and vegan-friendly wines.

La Cantina King Valley is a small family owned winery situated 42kms south of Wangaratta in the King Valley. Here, the Corsini Family, make wines using methods passed down through the generations. Our wines are made using estate grown fruit following traditional Tuscan processes retaining the full characteristics of each grape variety. All of their  wines have no preservatives added and are vegan friendly.

This method brings out the full characteristics of each wine, so you can enjoy the fresh, fragrant flavours of the King Valley. Their most popular wines is the  preservative free Dry Red. It is reputed to be one of the  the best preservative or organic wines around and they have  a good  assortment of both whites and reds, again preservative free. Apparently there is a  laborious  process the wines go  through to prevent oxygen from contaminating the wine through all the steps of the process and  their commitment to creating an old world wine making tradition and keeping it in the family is impressive!

Nice wines, with the practice of no added preservatives and not filtered, makes it very nice to drink for all! Highly recommend this beautiful Cellar Door visit! And their offerings are quite a wide variety, and well priced.

Wine Writer and Publisher Axel Ritenis with Peter Corsini in November 2021

The setting of his cellar is unique and stunning with a touch of Tuscany. By far La Cantina is the best winery in the King Valley. I will be ordering from Gino again very soon.