Chaffey Bros. Wine Co. Lux Venit Rosé 2020
- 91
- $22
- Drink by: 2021 - 2022
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It’s not always the case that you can’t tell a book by its cover, especially when it comes to wine. Attention to detail, or creative flair on a label, is often a hint for the approach to winemaking. It’s definitely true with the Chaffey Bros. Wine Co, whose eye-catching bottles are an insight into their creative and passionate approach to wine.
This wine tastes like summer; perfectly timely if you aren’t quite ready to move on from the season. It smells like strawberry yoghurt popsicles and cold watermelon slices eaten in the shade after a serious sprinkler session.
On the palate it’s dry with flavours of tangy freeze-dried strawberries, a gorgeous blood-orange pith-like texture and ruby grapefruit acidity. Drink it outside in these last few warm days with barbequed chicken skewers.
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.
