Feudo Arancio Riserva 2021
- 92
- $40
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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This is pointy end Nero d’Avola from Sicily. The team source fruit from two different zones to enhance the complexity. 30% of the fruit spends time in steel while the remaining 70% spends the best part of a year in French oak barrels. After this, the two components are blended and spend further time in steel before bottling and sitting in the estate cellars for a year before release. Opaque maroon in colour, the nose offers an intriguing array of aromas including smoked meats, bay leaves, plums, mulberries, earthy notes, bacon fat, aniseed and soy. This is intense, yet with good focus and serious length. There is a supple texture through to fine tannins. It would benefit from a little more time to allow it to build even further. In any event, enjoy this over the next eight to ten years.
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.
