Zonte’s Footsteps Rosso Cova McLaren Vale Montepulciano 2021
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2022-2023
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The evocative label says it all. Crack open a bottle with your favourite pasta and enjoy. This McLaren Vale Monte is perfect for it. Rossa Cova translates to brooding red, I am assured, and that certainly applies to the deep red colour, though the wine itself is more expressive and exhilarating than brooding. Again, no matter. Montepulciano is obviously at home in McLaren Vale.
The wine is bright and intense with concentrated flavours. Tobacco leaf notes, red and black fruits, spices, mulberries – saturated flavours. A wine of focus, there is a fine line of acidity running the full journey, through to a firm finish with slightly chunky tannins. Delicious stuff.
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.
