Le Sorelle

Heathcote, Victoria, Australia

Le Sorelle is a project of siblings Kim and Tennille Chalmers; the name itself means the sisters in Italian. The Chalmers girls grew up surrounded by vines and after pursuing their own independent careers for ten years - Kim in music and Tennille in hospitality – they have both succumbed to the inherent passion for viticulture and vino and joined the family business of growing grapes and making wine. Le Sorelle Shiraz is grown at the Chalmers Heathcote vineyard on the northern end of the Mt Camel range. The vines for the Le Sorelle block were propagated from a special vine selection out of the Chalmers family’s original nursery block. Le Sorelle shiraz is grown in the famous red Cambrian earth of the region and tended mostly by hand, with the wine being made by the Chalmers sisters along with Kim’s husband Bart van Olphen at the family’s Merbein winery. The concept of making shiraz is a divergence for the Chalmers girls whose family is well known as growers and producers of Italian varieties. Their philosophy has always focused on growing the right variety to suit the environment, so when it came to Heathcote, it made sense to produce shiraz. Le Sorelle is a wine which is true to the unique soil and site but is also inspired by the elegant, savoury and finely structured red wine styles Kim and Tennille love to drink.