Bloomfield Mencia 2024
- 93
- $38
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I have a soft spot for Mencia, and I must admit that I’ve spent about 5 minutes mesmerized by its colour, a vibrant tone of purple with a shade of pink. The choice of the pink coloured bottle cap makes it clear to me that Lauren doesn’t leave anything to chance. On the nose, freshly squeezed black and blueberries, with a spirituous side of maraschino cherries. A floral lift from crushed violet follows, with aromatic herbs, juniper berries and cracked black pepper to complete the picture. The palate descends towards funky town, but surprise, no stinky nor dirty (winking to my son’s favourite cartoons here), only a spritziness. Soft-grained tannins recall the Iberian version without wanting to be a copycat.
Lisa Cardelli is an Italian-born wine professional who has been based in Melbourne since 2010. She worked as a sommelier in some of the city’s leading fine-dining restaurants for over ten years before leaving hospitality to become a wine sales representative. Lisa is now a journalist for Il Globo, the newspaper for Italians in Australia and around the world, where she also curates her own wine column. She continues to write about wine for both local and international publications and is on track to become one of the few prolific bilingual wine writers in Australia. A certified WSET Educator, she teaches at various venues across Melbourne. She also judges at local wine shows and for the prestigious Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards. Lisa was the recipient of the 2022 Wine Communicators of Australia award for Best Published Feature Article, a finalist for the same award in 2024, the recipient of the 2022 Sydney Royal Wine Professional Development Scholarship sponsored by the Len Evans Foundation, and one of twelve carefully selected Len Evans Scholars in 2024.
