It also makes the basic details of exactly how a new world producer goes about it a touch more relevant: Hoddles Creek Estate, or the land for it, has been in the D’Anna family for 40 years. Forty acres of it were planted to vine in 1997, and because the two planted areas are on steep, opposing slopes, all vines are both hand pruned and hand picked – and kept at less than 2.5 tonne to the acre. Cambell Mattinson, Winefront Monthly
