• 2020
  • Heathcote

Nero d'Avola

$29
  • Category Red
  • Varietal Nero d'Avola
  • Range Trial Batch
  • Region Heathcote
  • Wine Style Soft & fruity
  • Food Pairing Pasta alla Norma (with eggplant & tomato), shared salumi plate, veal saltimbocca
Description

A brilliant vibrant purple hued wine with aromas of musk, rose, dark plum, pomegranate, baked quince and dried herbs. The mid-weight palate has the mouth-watering natural acidity we would expect of this variety and plenty of tannin. The flavours encompass cherries, sour plums, herbal notes and dried tomato.

95 POINTS GOLD - ROYAL SYDNEY WINE SHOW

NERO D’AVOLA
Nero d’Avola is a black grape variety native to the island of Sicily off the toe of the Italian peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea. Its name, translating as “black of Avola”, is derived from the town of Avola in the south of the island. 

  • Category Red
  • Varietal Nero d'Avola
  • Range Trial Batch
  • Region Heathcote
  • Wine Style Soft & fruity
  • Food Pairing Pasta alla Norma (with eggplant & tomato), shared salumi plate, veal saltimbocca

TASTING NOTES

A brilliant vibrant purple hued wine with aromas of musk, rose, dark plum, pomegranate, baked quince and dried herbs. The mid-weight palate has the mouth-watering natural acidity we would expect of this variety and plenty of tannin. The flavours encompass cherries, sour plums, herbal notes and dried tomato.

SEASON

It was an unusual season that began with quite wild and wet weather in spring leading to variable shoot growth and fruit set. It was a cool and condensed season in which different varieties ripening in close succession. Yields were low and of excellent quality.

WINEMAKING

This fruit was grown by the Chalmers family, pioneers of Italian grape varieties based at their Heathcote vineyard.
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We wanted to preserve and enhance the pretty perfume and vibrant fruit in a lighter style wine that is typical of Nero d’Avola from this region.

The fruit was chilled overnight before being destemmed and fermented in small open fermenters with hand plunging. The wine had a short maturation in older French oak barrels so as to impart very little oak or char flavour and to maintain the focus on fresh fruit character.