Di Fabio Winemaker’s Selection Montepulciano 2019
- 94
- $65
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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An Italian variety that seems ideally suited to McLaren Vale. This one’s now got six years of age to it, and yet it still retains its vibrancy and youthful energy, albeit tempered with just that trace of slightly spicy leather, suggesting a little development. It’s medium weight, and quite delicately poised, with a slight cherry and spicy blackberry combination. I love the acidity here, which gives it lift and life. And the tannins are gradually working into the wine. And where once they might’ve been slightly grippy, they are showing a really seamless integration, contributing to its structural integrity. This is screaming pasta, and it’s got me.
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.
