Otro Vino Margaret River The Italian 2024
- 91
- $36
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Sangiovese and Cabernet were made for each other. Each nestles so comfortably, naturally, into the other bringing a touch of mediterranean-style herbs and sour cherry bite along the way. The brilliant purple intensity is a good start. Dark berry scents and spice follow in dark cherry, plum, wild herbs, thyme, earth and chocolate. A “splash” of Cabernet brings the structure – I reckon there must be a couple of splashes – to wild fermented Sangiovese, and the rest is all about a dry astringent mouthfeel and lasting sour cherry crunch. The Italian is in full charm mode.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
