Feudo Arancio Grillo 2024
- 91
- $20
- Drink by: 2025-2028
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Grillo is a Sicilian white wine star that is immensely versatile, whether it’s as a stand-alone bright and brisk dry white or a component of Marsala. Here, it brings plenty of easy drinking and textural charm to a tiny everyday price. The scent is all about summer fruits, melon, citrus, apple, pear and spice. Flavours are bright with an additional aromatic appearance of honeysuckle and quince amid the summer fruits. A slight fruit sweetness on the finish comes after a long, smooth, textural flow of flavour delivered in fresh, clean acidity. And in typical Italian style, it’s a perfect foil for food. I’m thinking seafood but don’t overchill (the wine, that is).
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
