Maxwell Nero 2021
- 94
- $42
- Drink by: 2023-2029
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A very good year in McLaren Vale has allowed the winemakers to pick this at a slightly lower baume, resulting in less overt alcohol and, as a result, a better balanced and more pleasing wine made from a variety which hails from Sicily and that is becoming increasingly popular in Australia. It’s a vibrant and high energy wine with cherry and spicy plum notes. The fine lingering acidity keeps it together sustaining a long finish. A very good example of this variety.
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.
