Chalmers Dotti Ribolla Gialla 2021
- 92
- $33
- Drink by: 2023-2034
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You don’t taste a Ribolla Gialla every day, let alone one from Australia. As you may have guessed, it is an Italian variety. Cultivated since Roman times, it hails from the north east in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. This version by Chalmers smells positively crunchy. Green apples, celery, cucumber slices and peas popped straight from their shells in the veggie garden . There’s tangy lime juice and slippery honeydew melon. On the palate it’s light and supple. As refreshing as a perfectly balanced gin and tonic. A mineral note hints at the crispness of a late afternoon country breeze. At 10.9% alcohol it’s perfect for sipping over a summer long lunch of fresh salads and platters heaped high with your favourite cold seafood.
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.
