Taltarni Discovery Grenache Touriga 2022
- 93
- $32
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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This is a quirky little blend from Taltarni’s Discovery Range, created to allow the winemaker to play with some different, creative, experimental ideas. Touriga Nacional is a variety revered as the key grape in premium Port (from Portugal) and it adds lovely violet florals and blackberry structured tannin to the pretty, juicy cherries and raspberries of the Grenache. Initially very pretty, with fruit-driven lifted spice, the wine gradually reveals deeper tones of liquorice and freshly grated nutmeg with a wisp of eucalypt. It’s beautifully savoury with the aforementioned tannins adding a pencil-shaving rasp on the lingering finish.
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.
