Although it might sound like a wine of Italian origin, it's 100% McLaren Vale Shiraz made by Mike Farmilo, a long deputy to former Penfolds chief winemaker John Duval and now one of McLaren Vale's - and Australia's - most respected red winemakers. Inspired by the super-Tuscan style, the wine is tight, elegant, and screaming for food.

This wine won a coveted Blue-Gold Award  (Highly Commended)  at 2005 Sydney International Wine Show.

It is named for Vito (Vic) Zerella, patriarch of a leading Italian-Australian grape-growing family in the famous McLaren Vale, south of Adelaide in South Australia.

It's a concentrated and mouth-filling shiraz that showcases a great partnership between grape-grower and winemaker.

It takes people like the Zerella family to grow the best grapes and it takes someone like Mike Farmilo, a true master of winemaking and blending, to ensure that the final product is worthy of the grapes that went into it.

You can focus on its ripe, spicy fruit and drink it now, or, you can deliberate on the underlying strength of its stucture and imagine how mellow it will taste in 2010 or even 2015.