Riddoch The Author Shiraz 2019
- 95
- $64.99
- Drink by: 2023-2035
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There is immediate pleasure as you bring your nose to the glass – it’s like burying your face in a blackcurrant bush – ripe berries, fragrant leaves and the comforting spice of wood and earth. So densely concentrated with a volcanic rock and ironstone minerality, dark chocolate and salted liquorice. In all of these brooding characters the fruit retains a lifted freshness with a bright peach-like acidity and perfectly rounded, seamless tannins. Remarkable now and certain to reward a little patience in the cellar.
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.
