Colab and Bloom Nero d’Avola 2020
- 91
- $27.50
- Drink by: 2021 - 2031
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This Sicilian favourite has found a most welcoming home on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. The colour is a deep red with flecks of purple. The nose offers ripe and rich notes with excellent spices to the fore with plummy notes, a mix of red and dark berries, warm earth, tobacco leaves, roast meats and campfire notes. Truly, a most evocative style. Very powerful on the palate, especially upfront, this is a wine which offers much now but should age superbly over the next six to ten years. Perfect for a good steak or a top barbecue.
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.
