Mitchelton Roussanne 2020
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2021 - 2024
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The first swirl took me straight back to the intoxicating aromas of my godmother’s kitchen. She believed in dousing her baklava with a warm orange blossom and honey syrup immediately before slipping huge wedges of nutty pastry into our eager little hands. There’s juicy ripe peaches eaten in the sunshine and a hint of ginger spice too.
On the palate the stone fruit continues to seduce with a silky richness, against a backdrop of finely laced texture – a hint of grapefruit pith, a suggestion of chalk, a saline freshness.
This wine will remind you of summer in the depths of winter, pairing as easily with crunchy cheese toasties dipped in bowls of steaming soup as it will with platters of fresh seafood. I drank it with a spicy chicken curry and pillowy cheese-filled naan; definitely try that too.
Nicole loves wine. So much so that she gave up a successful career in Pharmacy, perfected her spitting technique, and moved from sunny Queensland to the wine-drenched laneways of Melbourne. Stints in hospitality, wineries, retail, sales and marketing filled the next few years while Nicole built her knowledge and searched for the right path. She completed the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) Diploma in 2016 and became a certified WSET Educator the following year. She now juggles a number of roles including teaching people about wine, curating wines lists for restaurants and bars, judging in Australian wine shows and, of course, writing. In 2016 she won the Negociants Working With Wine writing award and has since contributed to Gourmet Traveller WINE, Halliday Wine Companion Magazine and Nourish Magazine.
