Vino Intrepido Spanna in the Works Nebbiolo 2021
- 90
- $46.99
- Drink by: 2023-2030
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Spanna is another name for Nebbiolo, and it is commonly used for the style made in the extreme North of Piedmont, the Alto Piemonte. The fruit is coming from the famous Malakoff Estate in the Victorian Pyrenees, a place where Australian Nebbiolo reaches one of its best expressions. Orange peel, mountain herbs, rhubarb, dried cranberries, cloves, wet asphalt. The palate is less unforgiving, displaying dried roses, red cherries, cranberries, red plums, cloves, and cedar. Tannins are high and granulated, as they should be. Needs a bit of air before it can be enjoyed fully.
Lisa Cardelli is an Italian-born wine professional who has been based in Melbourne since 2010. She worked as a sommelier in some of the city’s leading fine-dining restaurants for over ten years before leaving hospitality to become a wine sales representative. Lisa is now a journalist for Il Globo, the newspaper for Italians in Australia and around the world, where she also curates her own wine column. She continues to write about wine for both local and international publications and is on track to become one of the few prolific bilingual wine writers in Australia. A certified WSET Educator, she teaches at various venues across Melbourne. She also judges at local wine shows and for the prestigious Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards. Lisa was the recipient of the 2022 Wine Communicators of Australia award for Best Published Feature Article, a finalist for the same award in 2024, the recipient of the 2022 Sydney Royal Wine Professional Development Scholarship sponsored by the Len Evans Foundation, and one of twelve carefully selected Len Evans Scholars in 2024.
