2018 Mayer Nebbiolo

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This is 100% whole bunch, which for nebbiolo raises some eyebrows, but hey, this is Timo Mayer, and the rule book was long ago blasted into outer space. Interpretation, individuality, personality – tenets that those working with nebbiolo in Australia can do where others can’t, and aren’t we richer for it. I took this wine away from Timo’s place to drink after hours. It piqued so much interest, and had such incredible compulsion for me to drink. It’s not for the nebbiolo fetishists in some respects, but it should be, as it teaches lessons as you drink it, per se. And it’s great.
Amazing colour, vivid garnet with faintest bronze. Bold bouquet of sweet earth, new leather, sour cherry, rose hip tea. Striking. The palate is wildly crunchy, almost glass-shard like in its crackle and mad angles, then slips into a tongue-on-the-roof-of-mouth rolling pucker with more of the sour cherry and rose hip tea-like character. Wonderful drinking, delivering fine and unique tannin profile with bright-as-a-button flighty nebbiolo character. Cool as, yet serious. Brilliant in its way.
94 points
Mike Bennie - The Wine Front