Mount Eyre Vineyards Nero d’Avola 2022
- 91
- $53
- Drink by: 2023-2030
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Nero d’Avola is a variety hailing from Sicily, where the hot mediterranean climate coax out both rich fruit and spicy, savoury flavours. It makes perfect sense then that this variety should shine in the heartland of Australia’s Hunter Valley, Pokolbin. The fruit is bright and juicy with sour cherries, and a lifted, almost jubey raspberry (think Allens red frogs), freshly grated nutmeg and a pinch of dried herbs offering a spicy undertone to the fruit. That juicy fruit continues on the palate with an abundance of tangy plums. Flavours of crushed fennel seeds and Chinotto add a savoury edge, enhanced by chalky Red Delicious apple-skin tannins. Drink with crunchy eggplant parmigiana topped with rich tomato sauce and Grana Padano.
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.
