SOUMAH Hexham Vineyard Nebbiolo 2022
- 94
- $58
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This is an outstanding example of an Australian adaptation of this famous Piedmont variety. Several different clones have been planted on a north-western slope to allow plenty of time for the fruit to ripen, and after hand picking, the wines are left on skins for up to at least 100 days, where the important role of allowing the tannins, a sometimes difficult aspect to manage, to soften and integrate. The result is a medium-bodied wine with a light crimson colour and a beautiful bouquet of bright red fruits, rose petals and a slightly tarry character which is part of the varietal mix. The wine has an excellent palate profile with the oak, which is seasoned 500 litre puncheons, neatly integrated and perfectly in harmony with the fruit and the tannins, which although softer are still firmish, providing what you want in Nebbiolo, which is structure. An excellent example of this variety from the Yarra Valley.
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.
