Henschke The Rose Grower Nebbiolo 2021

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Here is a wonderful example of how to manage and coax the best from the assertive tannins of this famous Piedmont variety. Yes, the tannins are there, they have to be, but the bright red fruits show a lift of rhubarb and cranberry with a little bright raspberry confection. I could drink a bit of this, it has that chalky ironstone and brick dust character you often find in the Barolos of Piedmont.

Ray Jordan
Wine critic, author and journalist at Winepilot

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.

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Variety: Red Wine, Nebbiolo