Castel Firmian Dabèn Moscato Rosa Trentino DOC 2020

A rarity to these shores, Moscato Rosa Trentino is a dessert wine worth checking out. It looks like a red wine, smells like the confection heart of a Turkish bazaar filled with Turkish Delight, and while there is a sweetness there is also an alluring citrus-induced freshness highlighting the role of red Moscato and its versatility.  Confection leads the aroma with red liquorice, musk stick, blackcurrant pastille, black fruits and high rose petal florals. Grapey sweet with hints of mandarin, tangerine citrus, honeycomb, Turkish Delight, musk stick and juicy red berries, the aromatics truly sing together with the orange rind/mandarin clean bitter tartness, all combined with a lovely fresh acidity. 375ml

Jeni Port

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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.

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