Squitchy Lane Cabernet Franc 2022
- 94
- $52
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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This wine pours the colour of sun-kissed blueberries and smells of them too. It’s absolutely bursting with fruit – raspberries and black currants join the fray shortly after. This flirtatiousness settles after some time in the glass into the aromas of the Australian bush – native flowers, gum trees and ancient rocks. The bright, tangy, red currants, cranberries and rhubarb surprise on the palate. It’s super juicy with a mouthwatering acidity and fine, textural, tea-like tannins. Cabernet Franc is a variety usually associated with the Loire valley where the fruit character can take a back seat to the herbaceous and earthy flavours. It is lovely to see an Australian example with such fruit purity.
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.
