Kirrihill Piccoli Lotti Nero d’Avola 2021
- 93
- $27
- Drink by: 2023-2029
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Another Italian variety which has found a new home in Australia, and is doing especially well in the warmer regions like McLaren Vale. Tasting wines like this, the first thing that springs to mind is why on earth has it taken so long! Lovely crimson colour. We have notes of spices and herbs on the nose. Leather and cloves, juicy raspberries, warm earth and mushrooms. The flavours move more to mulberries on the palate, with coffee beans, hints of milk chocolate and cocoa powder. There is excellent length, fine balance and a real more-ishness about it. Fresh and delicious, drink over the next five to six years. Love it.
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.
