Brilliant Aussie Nebbiolo: Arrivo 2007
January 11th, 2010 admin
Really enjoying this wine. It’s an Australian Nebbiolo, produced by Peter Godden of the Australian Wine Research Institute, from grapes grown in the Adelaide Hills. Nebbiolo is a difficult variety that rarely performs well outside Piedmont in Italy, but Peter seems to have found the knack of working with it. As well as this wine, he also produces a rose, and a high-end bottling called Lunga Macerazione (the 2006 version of this was one of the wines in the Landmark Tutorial – it was fantastic – and I have another bottle of this in …
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