Feudo Arancio Riserva 2020
- 94
- $40
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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The key red variety in Sicily is Nero d’Avola and this is a delicious example. The team use stainless steel for maturation of 30% of the wine, to retain fruit character and freshness, while the remaining 70% spends ten months in French oak barrels. Before release, the wine gets another year resting in bottle in the cellar. The wine has hints of development, but it retains freshness and life. Dark maroon in colour, the nose offers chocolate, mushrooms, smoked meats, tobacco leaves, blackberries, licorice and cassis. Balanced, focused and seamless, there is a line of fine acidity leading through to silky tannins. A ten year proposition.
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.
