jamie goode's wine blog: Brilliant Aussie Nebbiolo: Arrivo 2007

Monday, January 11, 2010

Brilliant Aussie Nebbiolo: Arrivo 2007


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 the tasting queue).

I'm sure Peter wouldn't claim that Arrivo has fully arrived yet; but if this is what he's able to achieve at the outset (2007 is the fourth vintage), then future wines look set to be incredible. The Arrivo website is here.

Arrivo Nebbiolo 2007 Adelaide Hills
14.5% alcohol. This is a beautiful wine, and it's just a baby: as such, it benefits from decanting, and tasted on the second day it shows even more complexity and elegance. Pale cherry coloured, it has a sweetly aromatic nose of ginger, herbs, warm spices and sweet cherry and plum fruit. The palate has intensely spicy sweet cherry fruit with firm tannins, but with some air settles down a bit to show complex, elegant savoury, subtly earthy fruit. Nice smoothness and purity of texture here: a really interesting Australian take on this difficult but beguiling Italian grape variety. I think this will be great in five years time, and it will be interesting to see where it gets to in a decade. 92/100

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3 Comments:

At 7:01 PM, Blogger Chris Townend said...

if its as goode as you say (and who am I to doubt you) this is an impressive wine. where can we buy it in the UK?

 
At 10:27 PM, Blogger Nick Oakley said...

But the label is even worse than the new Flagstone efforts!

 
At 7:14 PM, Anonymous Tim Carlisle said...

Have you tried the Trentham Nebbiolo?

 

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