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Surprise packet: An exceptional Adelaide Hills Montepulciano

March 26, 2018

Australian Montepulciano shouldn’t be this good, surely?

That was going through my brain when I tasted the Amadio Heritage Selection Kersbrook Montepulciano 2014.

Here, you’re looking at a ripe and plush, Australian take on the red grape of the Abruzzo that nails the brief.

Amadio Heritage Selection Kersbrook Montepulciano 2014

A bold, broad-shouldered and plump plummy red that that is full-flavoured, yet still retains a sense of balance. Tannin-driven, and pumped up with oak richness, it’s a wine of lavish red fruit and an inky punch.

What surprises is that it never feels heavy, or baked or dried out to finish, even though I see this in some of the other Amadio wines. It just tastes, well, right.

Indeed I kept coming back and retasting this, expecting to not enjoy it as much with time in glass. But it just continued delivering.

Best drinking: Drinkable now but will arguably be even better in a few years time. Will live for at least ten as well. 18.5/20, 94/100. 14.5%, $45. Would I buy it? I’d buy a bottle for sure.

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  • About me – Andrew Graham


    At 18 I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, doing a degree that I didn't really like, and a liquor shop seemed like fun. Needless to say I discovered wine, my uni degree morphed into something completely different and wine/beer took over my life.

    Almost twenty years later and I currently spend my days wearing many (wine) hats, mostly as a writer, presenter and marketer.

    While wearing my writer cap I write features for the likes of National Liquor News, Gourmet Traveller WINE and the RAS plus I'm a Lifestyle FOOD channel wine expert. Read more about me here or get in touch to book your next wine event with me here.

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