Colab and Bloom Montepulciano 2020
- 90
- $27.5
- Drink by: 2021-2028
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Colab and Bloom is a winery owned and operated by Norm Doole and Mike Farmilo, working with friends in the industry, like Nick Whiteway. One suspects that they have had a lot of fun with this project. Mike Farmilo is the winemaker and many will be familiar with him from his many achievements over the years, including a significant involvement with Penfolds Grange. He has not one, but two Jimmy Watson trophies adorning his shelves.
Montepulciano is a famous Italian variety now making serious inroads here and the Fleurieu Peninsula is proving an ideal home. This one is a deep maroon with broad, soft and welcoming aromatics – lots of fruit and flavour here. An array of black fruits, mulberries, dry herbs, chocolate, and tobacco leaf. An enticing savouriness makes this most appealing. Soft, with decent length and always exuding a heap of flavour, what more could you want? The herbs and chocolate notes come to the fore towards the finish. An attractive wine with lots going on.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
