Tintilla Estate Wines
Hunter Valley
Tintilla Estate is for everyone with a love of food, wine and family. One of the Hunter Valley’s best kept secrets this thoughtful family owned and run winery, vineyard and olive grove is a leader in the burgeoning cellar door wine and food experience.
Tintilla exquisitely reflects the traditions of the old world with the tastes and flexibility of the new. The Dionysian dancer on the label draws on the Greek wine tradition of women, followers of the god of wine, joined in communion of drinking the wine of the Gods with dancing. Tintilla is an Old World term for red wine used by Samuel Pepys interchangeably with claret for the red wine of Bordeaux.
Established in 1993, good wine always starts with good grapes that reflect the natural balance between the land, the climate and the vines. At Tintilla, the aim is to deliver high quality fruit and make wine with minimal interference so that as much of the Hunter character is preserved. Winemaker James Lusby and his father Robert are passionate about the unique styles of wine that come from the Hunter terroir and seek to deliver true regional varietal wines. Over the years we have won Trophy’s for a number of our wines.
Their wines include classic Hunter Semillon, the Angus, grown on the creek bed soils, a soft and flavoursome long lasting traditional Hunter Shiraz, a highly rated Justine Merlot from the clay on limestone soils and James Cab/Merlot.
Tintilla have pioneered Sangiovese in the Hunter, a well matched climate, producing a Rosato di Jupiter, Rosalind Blush Sparkling and Catherine Di’M Sangiovese and Merlot blend.
Chardonnay cuttings originally came to the Hunter direct from Clos du Vougeot vineyard in Burgundy in the 1830’s. At Tintilla’s winery they make a Chardonnay grapes taken off a Lovedale Rd vineyard. As a result they exhibit great varietal character.
| TINTILLA ESTATE | Vintage | Case |
| Pebbles Brief Chardonnay | 2019 | 12 |
| Reserve Shiraz | 2017 | 12 |
| Aged Semillon | 2011 | 12 |
| Patriach Shiraz | 2014 | 12 |
| Tawny Port 21 Year Old | 21YO | 12 |