Nikola Estate The Symbolist 2024
- 95
- $38
- Drink by: 2026-2033
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This is sourced largely from the Swan Valley with a whole bunch of varieties – Mencía, Nero D’Avola, Arinto, Malbec, and Touriga Nacional. There’s a real Heinz variety there. But they work so well together. This is really about the fruit. It’s medium-bodied but generous. Loads of blackberry and dark plummy fruits. With impeccably managed oak supporting the fine chalky tannins to promote a palate that is exquisite and thoroughly delicious. This is such an easy wine to drink. It floats over the palate effortlessly long and thoroughly satisfying.
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.
