Seppeltsfield Nero d’Avola 2020
- 91
- $25
- Drink by: 2020 - 2024
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This can be a love or not so much variety. It all depends on the vintage and the approach. For me, this Sicilian variety does best when lower in alcohol, so this one works perfectly. Bright cherry and light licorice aromas with a trace of raspberry. The palate is then fleshy with a distinct chalky tannin
thread. It’s made into the soft and fleshy joven style and designed for early drinking. This wine for the history buffs was vinified in the historic 1888 Gravity Cellar at Seppeltsfield which has been restored to working order.
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.
