Nicolas Amarone Classico 2019
- 94
- $180
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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This is the big gun from the Veneto region – based near Verona, so think Romeo and Juliet, but would any other wine smell quite so sweet? A crimson/magenta hue, this is a wine with serious intensity. There are notes of chocolate, cloves, cassis, plums, black fruits, leather and a hint of axle grease (in the most positive way). The wine offers focus and bright acidity, which runs the full journey, and a lengthy journey it is. A wine which is generous but balanced, it concludes with delightfully silky tannins. Ten or twelve years will see the wine drinking beautifully, but you could also say that by then, it is only getting started.
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.
