Diletto - an Italian noun meaning ‘to delight’ or ‘to take pleasure in’.

This is a collaboration between four friends – Ben, Ben, Chris and Mel centered around a love of a great bottle of wine.

Sharing bottles of wine together started in 2008, when we (Ben Mullen and Mel) met at the University of Adelaide studying winemaking and viticulture. Our friendship morphed to sharing good times and good meals, sharing houses, sharing winemaking spaces and now collaborating together on making these wines. Then enter Ben and Chris, without whom neither of us would survive vintage time.

During university, Ben and Mel both worked in Ngadjuri country (the Barossa Valley), following that Ben worked with Shiraz in Te Matau-a-Māui (New Zealand’s Hawkes Bay) and Mel as the winemaker in Great Western (Traditional Owners have not been formally recognised*). These regions had incredibly unique soils and terroirs - the alluvial Greywacke stones of the Gimblett Gravels in Te Matau-a-Māui and the decomposed bedrock granitic sands of the Grampians.

Our inspiration behind the wines we make in Diletto is finding wonderful patches of land that grow beautiful and unique grapes. It's our pleasure and delight to work with each farm.

*The Eastern Maar People are negotiating a Recognition and Settlement agreement with the Victorian Government.