Luigi Bazzani who is both vigneron and restaurateur, has always worked in conjunction with high profile, professional winemakers but often makes final decisions regarding styles, blending, food matching, qualities, etc. He is also the visionary who creates special release vintages to mark special milestones and events al Warrenmang – a successful and impressive vineyard & resort.
WARRENMANG VINEYARD
To give you the background of the wine – Luigi has been determined for the last 2 years to select and blend the best parcels of the remarkable 05 Vintage. With a particular superb batch of Estate Cabernet Franc and Estate Merlot; Luigi particularly enamored with Bordeaux / Pomerol, organised the bench trials to see how it would work with the 05 Black Puma and the best of the Cabernet Sauvignon from the Estate. Production is 400 cases (doz), 310 dozen of which were pre-sold. The wine retails for $110 AUS at Cellar Door.
Warrenmang continues to produce wine of exceptional quality and the upcoming release of the 2005 Black Puma shiraz has 80% sold en-primeur. The introduction of the Bazzani Shiraz Cabernet offers an outstanding price/quality ratio and has more than doubled Warrenmang’s production in the last 2 years.
Luigi Bazzani grew up on a vineyard in the Province of Parma in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. His father was a builder and vigneron and his mother – a wonderful cook. Luigi has 5 brothers and sisters currently living in Paris, London, Italy and Australia. In his early twenties Luigi moved to London to commence work in the hospitality industry to work with Grand Metropolitan Hotels as Banqueting Head Waiter, at the Connaught Hotel in Mayfair for three years. Subsequently moving on to work as a fi rst class Dining Steward on Cunard Liner Queen Elizabeth 1st on its trans-Atlantic crossings from London – New York – London.
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