Scylla Nero d'Avola - 2023

95 Points
Australian nero d’avola can often lean into poppy ripeness – wines with glossy curb appeal. This certainly has easy charm, but it’s not defined by it. It has a transparency of expression, forgoing overly succulent fruit for layered detail. Dried black cherry, black jellybean sans confection, warm bitumen, master stock spices, dried cranberry, barberry and some lifted, fragrant wild raspberry and red licorice notes. This is a superb expression of the grape, refined, savoury and referential to its Sicilian roots, though also thoroughly individual, of place. There’s a thoughtful new direction for the Italian varieties at this address, and it’s genuinely thrilling.
Marcus Ellis, Wine Companion, November 2024

Bronze Medal
2024 McLaren Vale Wine Show

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