Soumah Mezzaluna Nebbiolo 2022
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This is a Nebbiolo from the Yarra Valley made up of several different clones. Nebbiolo can be a relatively challenging variety to do well in Australia, with tannin control being key. In this case, the tannins have been well managed, although necessarily they still play a role, because that’s Nebbiolo. It’s made from low-yielding, handpicked vines, and it spent 100 days on skins, the key to managing the tannins and keeping the fruit vibrant and energetic. It has a beautiful, rustic minerality with some lively red fruits and supportive oak, all combining to produce a seamless, smooth, and perfectly integrated palate. This is a mighty good expression of this famous Piedmont 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.
