Colab and Bloom Nero d’Avola 2021
- 92
- $25
- Drink by: 2022-2026
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For me, the key to nero is when you pick and how much alcohol you get. If the sugars climb too high and the resulting alcohol gets above 14.5% you lose so much of what this variety is about. In this case it works so beautifully. It’s medium bodied with floral rose petal and black cherry aromas. The palate is smooth and seamlessly integrated. I could drink a bit of this, especially at the price.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
