Watkins Ruscello Sangiovese 2022
- 92
- $26
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The Watkins family vineyard in Langhorne Creek provides for a range of traditional and newer wines, this sitting in a series titled “Mad Cousins” which banners together alternative varietals, inventive blends and creative styles. And so to Sangiovese, with its lovely garnet colour in the glass and more savoury notes through the sensories. Quite lifted at first, aromas suggesting old cellars and leathery lounges, oak in play to begin as well as following into the palate where it offers a woody backbone to modest black tea and black cherry fruit flavours. Quite compact in structure, the wine sits in a medium bodied zone yet with surprising power and drive. A wine that has quite a bit of old-school charm, and plenty of cellar-worthy time on its hands.
Tony is best known for his 10 years as News Corp’s National Wine Writer, with weekly columns in major metropolitan mastheads throughout Australia including The Adelaide Advertiser, The Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Melbourne Herald Sun. He continues to write feature articles and columns for all the major Australian wine media publications. Tony has also worked as a restaurant reviewer, section editor, book editor, digital content provider, journalism teacher and was named Wine Communicators of Australia 2018 Legend of the Vine (SA). Find out more about Tony at tonylove.com.au
