Stella Bella Otro Vino Tempranillo 2024
- 91
- $36
- Drink by: 2025-2027
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Made in the Spanish joven or young style. It is intended for immediate drinking and with its busy immediacy and pure fruited appeal, there can be no doubt about it. A light earthy savouriness is hinted at in the rising scent of black plum, star anise, chocolate panforte, dried rosemary, spice and bay leaf. It is confirmed on the palate with its dry, earthy, savoury, herbals and fresh dark berries. Structure is firm and hints of European style reds with its cherry pip tannin dry feel. It’s a super dry finish which immediately gives rise to thoughts of food matchings and, in particular, paella. Sounds good!
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
