Oliver’s Taranga Chica Mencía Rosé 2022
- 89
- $27
- Drink by: 2022-2024
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Mencía is a Spanish variety hailing from the northwest that shows juicy fruit with a lovely savoury, spicy, herbal undertone. The label tells us the fruit for this rosé was picked by the cellar door crew on Valentine’s Day. Perhaps appropriately, it is stunningly pink, think lush pink roses. It smells like watermelon and strawberry sorbet, pink birthday cake topped with musk lifesavers. Pink in appearance and aroma, it might have people shaking their heads to a sweet rosé. But then it is dry. Refreshingly so, with a rosewater sensation and blood orange zesty acidity. A delightful drop that had me craving a sunny spring day. Serve with prawn and mint Vietnamese rice paper rolls.
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.
