Feudo Arancio Queto Nero d’Avola 2021
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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From Sicily, this is their organic Nero (wines under their Queto label are organic). These grapes are grown 300 metres above sea level with fermentation on skins for around a week. The wine then spends ten months maturing in stainless steel, with a small percentage spending six months in French oak barriques. Deep maroon in colour, the nose exhibits notes of roast meats, warm earth, soy and coffee beans, with licorice and cloves. Delicious, mouthfilling flavours here. The structure shows us a wine with a supple texture, good acidity and sleek tannins. Impressive stuff. Now and for the next half dozen years. Worth seeking out.
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.
