Menhir Salento Nº Zero Negroamaro 2019
- 93
- $26
- Drink by: 2022-2025
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With the Negroamaro grape variety – translation, “black bitter” – we are immediately transported to the Mediterranean warmth and black-fruited intensity of the red wines of Puglia in southern Italy. Soft, round, nice and easy drinking all the way with a kick of Italian-style savouriness thrown in. I’ve written Cherry Ripe twice in my tasting notes. That has to be a good sign, right? Sour cherry and bitter chocolate (Cherry Ripe), anise, rosemary, sage and earth scents are most inviting. Medium-bodied, plush and tasty in delicious black and red fruits with a chocolatey herbaceous quality. The grape’s high-ish tannins are nicely tamed allowing the fruit to perform front and centre.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
