Pikes Il Premio sangiovese 2024
- 94
- $35
- Drink by: 2026-2032
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In this vintage, slightly sweeter and more generous fruit characters are evident compared with the excellent 2023 release. A lovely mix of black and red cherry aromas combines with a liberal influence of spicy dried herbs. The palate is supremely balanced, with the clever use of older French oak creating a harmonious partnership with excellent fruit from a very good vintage. The result is a lovely medium-weight palate that is approachable, friendly and thoroughly satisfying. It’s everything you could want from this variety.
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.
