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10 Nov

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FREEMAN Secco Rondinella Corvina has won the PROVENANCE Trophy and a Top Gold Medal at the 2024 Australian Alternative Varieties Wine Show. The flagship Secco is a blend of Rondinella and Corvina (50/50) that was inaugurated with the 2002 vintage. Three vintages spanning two decades were entered  in the AAVWS – 2004, 2007, 2017 – and the judges commendation reads:
‘Top wine [Freeman Secco 2004] proved the test of time – an intriguing and robust 20-year-old, that opened up wonderfully in the glass. A wonderful tasting across decades.’
The accolade marks 20 years of Brian Freeman’s passion for savoury Italianate wines and his lateral innovative thinking. For two decades he has been drying parcels of both Rondinella and Corvina grapes in a neighbour’s dehydrator shed. Fresh-pick parcels are added to the partially dried grapes and are co-fermented to craft FREEMAN Secco (meaning dried in Italian) that is typically aged at least four years before release.
Currently available FREEMAN Secco vintages are FREEMAN Secco 2018 and the Cellar Reserve FREEMAN Secco 2007 [Limited]. ????????

06 Mar

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The global go-to wine mag Decanter has just published a feature on the NSW Hilltops and Orange regions by their Aussie contributor Huon Hooke. Good to see our local heroes getting international exposure!
Huon rated two FREEMAN wines in his 15 ‘Exciting Wines to Try’ – FREEMAN Secco Rondinella Corvina ‘Gentle complexity…intensity and depth’ 92 Points and FREEMAN Fiano ‘An excellent food wine.’ 93 Points
Nice to be out in the world… ????????????

15 Jun

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YOUR INVITATION!

Join winemaker Brian Freeman for our first-in-a-while heart-warming Winter Wine Dinner featuring the current (and Cellar Reserve)

FREEMAN portfolio:

Thursday 21 July 2022

6.30pm

BIBO WINE BAR

7 Bay Street, Double Bay

$130pp

Book early to avoid disappointment.

BOOKINGS:

Please email: sales@freemanvineyards.com.au

or call Jane Mobile: 0417 733715

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FREEMAN Pet Nat Prosecco NV

King Salmon Cru + Citrus + Fish Roe

FREEMAN Rondo Rosé 2021

Artisanal Bread + Burrata + Quince

FREEMAN Rosso Corvina Rondinella 2021

Mushroom Rissois + Truffle

FREEMAN Nebbiolo 2018

Black Angus Beef Tartare + Parmesan + Matchstick Potato

FREEMAN Secco Rondinella Corvina 2016 + FREEMAN Robusta Corvina 2015

Lamb Shoulder + Red Wine

Mixed Leaf Salad + Apple + Manchego

Kipfler Potato + Comté

FREEMAN Dolcino 2019

Ginger + Citrus Millefeuille

13 Aug

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FREEMAN has again been awarded a prestigious 5 STAR RATING in the new 2020 edition of the HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION.

The two stand-outs this year are 95 POINT rated  FREEMAN Secco Rondinella Corvina 2014 and FREEMAN Robusta Corvina 2013, both  capturing serious attention.

FREEMAN Secco 2014: ‘Consistently good each year but this ’14 release is particularly noteworthy. The word impeccable springs to mind…’

FREEMAN Robusta 2013: ‘A riot of spice of every kind…Very well done in a new frontier.’

Other FREEMAN ratings include:

FREEMAN Rondo Rosé 2018: 93 POINTS

FREEMAN Sangiovese 2017: 93 POINTS

FREEMAN Nebbiolo 2015: 93 POINTS

04 Jun

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You don’t have to be Warren Buffet to know that Forbes magazine is pitched at a mostly  US-based business clientele. And hopefully some are lovers of alternative red wines.

Curious US-based wine writer Cathrine Todd has investigated what she sees as the next cult trend in global wines – dried-grape  wines. Her research soon found the FREEMAN dried grape portfolio – FREEMAN Secco Rondinella Corvina and FREEMAN Robusta (100% Corvina) – from faraway Hilltops, NSW.

Read all about FREEMAN Vineyards US debut here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cathrinetodd/2019/05/24/wines-next-cult-trend/#668615a7353d

 

Brian Freeman emptying Corvina grapes after drying.

02 Nov

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ABC Radio Central West visited FREEMAN Vineyards recently and reporter Tim Fookes talked to winemaker Brian Freeman about the NSW Hilltops potential for Italian red grape varieties like Pinot Grigio, Sangiovese and Nebbiolo. The flagship FREEMAN Secco is made from Australia’s only plantings of corvina and rondinella grapes. They also discussed how to best viticulturally manage  a definitive drought year.

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