2025 Tom Bowler Nero d'Avola
2025 Tom Bowler Nero d'Avola
VARIETY: Nero d’Avola first brought into the country in the 1990’s and cleared from quarantine and released for planting in Australia in 2001. With its ancestral home on the sun-baked southern slopes of Sicily, Nero hasn’t just found a very happy home here in McLaren Vale, it’s thriving.
TASTES LIKE Medium bodied, with aromas of bright jubey red fruits, with a hint of pomegranate and star anise. It’s all raspberries and blackberries on the palate. Fresh natural acidity, firm ripe tannins and a warm juicy finish. Delicious.
DRINK WITH Chargrilled blackened Tuna Steak.
VINTAGE SUMMARY : The 2021 will be remembered as one of the most perfect seasons climatically in living memory. Mild conditions persisted throughout summer and we received ideal levels of supplementary rain at exactly the right time. Fruit was harvested in optimum condition for all varieties and our Nero d’Avola was no exception
WINEMAKING : Open fermented, 45 days skin contact, wild yeast and natural acid. No added enzymes or fining agents. Bottled January 2022, 49 cases made.
WINEMAKER : Andy Coppard
Campbell Mattinson Wine Front: The cup here runneth over with lavender, anise and blueberry jube flavours. It’s delicious to say the least. There’s a smoky, minerally, clove-like note here too, which adds spread to the overt floral and berry flavours. There’s also a firm, savoury-driven dryness to this wine but it’s also an easy wine to take, so to speak. It gives. It’s generous. It’s well educated but it wants to party. 93 Points