Black & Ginger The Gypsy Vermentino 2023
- 91
- $33
- Drink by: 2024-2027
Share
Fresh from the Kilnhouse Vineyard in the Alpine Valleys and full of driving, crunchy acidity and a palate saline and briskly alert. Vermentino brings a cool climate edge to the glass that suits it well. Sea spray, saline, almost neutral in aroma with hints of green apple and grapefruit. Streamlined across the palate and led by keen acidity, it’s subtle in flavour – a trad approach which makes it a natural in food matching – showing hints of dried herbs among the lemon, grapefruit and apple. This style shows the other side to the Vermentino grape, the citrussy, saline side achieved at lower ripeness and it’s mighty enjoyable, especially at the table with a platter of fritto misto.
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.
