Meet the Winemaker 4.0 at Messinaville

Overview

Messinaville, aka Messina's Marrickville HQ, is ground zero for all things gelato. Still, its in-house restaurant and wine bar, Erin, takes a slightly more savoury approach, serving farm-to-table dishes using ingredients produced on its regenerative Erindale farm.

For the next instalment of its monthly Meet the Winemaker series, the crew is leaning into this holistic perspective, hosting Joel and Pierre from the innovative natty-wine shop DRNKS alongside Daniele Piccinin, a respected natural winemaker swinging through Australia far from his agrarian homebase of Veneto, Italy.

Taking a leading role in Italy's natural wine movement, Piccinin's office of choice is Muni — a seven-hectare, calcareous vineyard perched on a verdant hillside. Specialising in durella, pinot nero and chardonnay, each bottle brims with organic and biodynamic methods, showing how winemaking doesn't have to disrupt the earth.

From 6.30pm on Thursday, November 20, guests can savour a flight of five Piccinin wines for $20, accompanied by an optional food pairing specially created for the event. Plus, DJs will be spinning tunes in Messinaville's spritz garden, while the full à la carte dining menu is ready and waiting should you feel the need to indulge even further.