Colab and Bloom Sangiovese 2021
- 92
- $25
- Drink by: 2022 - 2024
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Sangiovese has not always worked in Australia, rarely reaching quite the heights we’d hoped. This one has no such issues. From
the Fleurieu Peninsula, this is delicious, just oozing flavour. An attractive crimson colour. There is an immediate note of red cherries on the nose, with other red fruits. Dried herbs and a hint of tomato bush with spices, leather, bergamot and tobacco leaf. Good acidity and decent length, this is juicy and just a joy, thanks to the exuberance of the flavours. Lovely stuff. If more Aussie Sangiovese was like this, there’d be more Aussie Sangiovese.
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.
