Alternative varieties: Soft, round and mouth-coating Trincadeira July 6th, 2021 By Sonya Logan Patritti had been working with a few alternative varieties, including Saperavi, Barbera, Arneis and Savagnin, when the availability of some so-called Tinta Amarela fruit was brought to its attention in 2012. The Portuguese variety was growing in a vineyard at Light Pass in the Barossa Valley which had been purchased by Corey Rohrlach in 2011. Corey’s father Wayne was delivering fruit to Patritti’s winery in metropolitan Adelaide the following year when he mentioned that one of the blocks in his ...