Anselmi Realda 2023
- 93
- $70
- Drink by: 2025-2036
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The Anselmi background makes for quite the story, involving a divorce from the Veneto’s Soave appellation and Roberto Anselmi striking out on his own in 2000 with his own criteria for quality. One taste of the Realda, a Cabernet Sauvignon, and it’s clear this wine offers a taste of class and further promise with ageing. This is a well-crafted Cabernet with impressive poise from the outset hosting a wealth of ripe blackberry, cassis, dark roasting herbs, leaf, earth, chocolate and some nicely integrated vanillin oak. The palate is both lightly savoury and elegantly shaped, built on fine-cut tannins. A lifted thread of bay leaf and wild mint makes for a lovely lasting memory. Cellar worthy.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
