Oliver’s Taranga Vineyards Chica Rosé 2023
- 89
- $28
- Drink by: 2024-2025
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This rosé hits the visual sweet spot of a peachy pale pink and makes me think of sunsets. It smells like fresh strawberries and Pink Lady apples. A Spanish variety, called Mencía, forms the core of this wine with a dash of Shiraz adding peppery spice. In the mouth it is perfectly dry and crisp, exactly what you want in rosé at sunset. There’s a hint of pithy texture that invites a charcuterie platter to the table as a lovely orange sherbet acidity dances on the finish.
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.
