Aces & Arrows Barossa Grenache 2019
- 90
- $30
- Drink by: 2024-2028
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So, so spicy! There’s the sweet baking spices that spill from Nanna’s pantry and a burst of Sichuan pepper. The fruit is plump but so savoury – like the jus-laced cherry sauce drizzled over a plump duck breast. Barossa wines are often noted for their vibrant fruit expression, perhaps it’s the old vines and some whole bunch fermentation, but this beauty has an enhanced savoury sophistication. Plenty of flavour but with a graphite minerality, and it bears, repeating, loads of sexy spice. Drink with a big charcuterie platter and a table full of friends.
Nicole loves wine. So much so that she gave up a successful career in Pharmacy, perfected her spitting technique, and moved from sunny Queensland to the wine-drenched laneways of Melbourne. Stints in hospitality, wineries, retail, sales and marketing filled the next few years while Nicole built her knowledge and searched for the right path. She completed the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) Diploma in 2016 and became a certified WSET Educator the following year. She now juggles a number of roles including teaching people about wine, curating wines lists for restaurants and bars, judging in Australian wine shows and, of course, writing. In 2016 she won the Negociants Working With Wine writing award and has since contributed to Gourmet Traveller WINE, Halliday Wine Companion Magazine and Nourish Magazine.
