Stonehaven Limited Vineyard Release Padthaway Nero d’Avola 2025
- 93
- $45
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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Another Italian immigrant, this example of Nero is grown in the Padthaway region. The grape is making some very fine red wines in its adopted home and this is a particularly enjoyable example. Dark purple/maroon in colour, there is an intriguing nose with notes of freshly unearthed beetroot, coffee grinds, a touch of chocolate, plums and black fruits. Good intensity, there is a juicy and expressive palate with fine acidity running the full journey. Serious length and seemingly endless flavours, there is a lot to like here. Enjoy this over the next six to eight years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
