Smashable blend of Barbera, Nebbiolo and - making its debut - Sangiovese from the Clare Valley. The pretence is well and truly left at the door for this wine, a blue fruited juice bomb of deliciousness with unmistakably herbaceous aromatics.
Unico Zelo wines are made by Brendan and Laura Carter, who first met at the University of Adelaide, while he was studying oenology and she was studying agricultural science. She went off to Henschke to hone her wine chops while he finished his degree; then, in 2014, they launched their own winery, working out of a converted 1920s cold-storage facility in Gumeracha, an hour by car north-east of Adelaide, in the Adelaide Hills.