This variety is grown in Southern Italy where it’s known as “The Barolo of the South”. Based on this wine I’d suspect the Barolo comparison is based a little more on tannins than fruit.
Very deeply coloured in the glass with a bright red glowing meniscal illumination – the initial introduction is magnanimous and laced with enthusiasm.
A deep dark well of fruit and spices unfurls from the glass and invades your senses. This fragrant maelstrom offers dark plums in combination with five spice and hints of chocolate with just a little red fruit.
The palate is powerful and prolonged this wine is quite a mouthful of flavour. Plums, more dark than red, some red cherry swimming in chocolate/cacao with a little mulberry dominated by black olives, some charry meatiness leads into a slight saltiness with spices and then we encounter those magnificent tannins which are fine and drying and lusciously long. If you hold the wine in your mouth for awhile you’ll notice a smooth defining umami feel and flavour – another delicious aspect of this complex wine.
We enjoyed this wine with slow cooked organic grass-fed Osso Bucco from Boss Meats in Stanthorpe and the match was sublime. This wine will cellar and if you don’t enjoy young driving tannins then open the wine in 5 years to check development but it will live much longer than that.
Tasted: Saturday 22nd May, 2021 without food and then with over several hours.
Alcohol: 13.3%
Closure: Screwcap
Price: $45
Suggested Drinking Window: 2020 to 2035
Winemaker: Andy Williams in collaboration with Rob Davidson
Fruit Source: The Riverland, South Australia
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