Precious Little Barossa Valley Marananga Nero d’Avola 2021
- 91
- $30
- Drink by: 2022-2027
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The Marananga sub-region of the Barossa – think Seppeltsfield and surrounds – brings deep, dark colour and lush flavour to any red grape it grows. The Sicilian red grape, Nero d’Avola, has made itself at home in the area in a very short time. Based on this example, its Barossan future looks very, very bright. The ’21 sports a Marananga-style glistening, concentrated deep purpleness. The Sicilian extrovert goes full Barossa looking to black cherry, plum, blueberry, anise, dark chocolate and even a touch of intriguing Turkish Aleppo chilli-cumin spice. It’s a busy, fruit-fuelled youngster with an almost Cherry Ripe blend of fruit and chocolate played against a firm acid /tannin background. Super friendly drinking enjoyment.
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.
