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FREEMAN Nebbiolo

FREEMAN Nebbiolo 2023

Nebbiolo

Named after the Italian word for ‘fog’ [nebbia] Nebbiolo ripens in late autumn in the NSW Hilltops when mornings are indeed often foggy. Pleasingly this northern Italian origin variety, most often associated with Piedmont, has proven highly suited to the elevated cool slopes and soils of the Hilltops region representing one of Australia's most exciting matches of a classic Italian grape and local terroir. It's a notoriously fussy, later-ripening variety that thrives in rich volcanic and decomposed granite clay soils, warm summer days, and cool, foggy autumn mornings – usually all a given in the Hilltops.

VINTAGE

The perfect dry autumn slowly ripened the nebbiolo grapes to near perfection, fully ripe and flavour-packed, picked slightly earlier in mid-April.

TASTING NOTES 

An intense medium ruby coloured wine marked by a distinctive varietal nose with attractive hints of rose petal, cherry and blueberry over herbal notes leading to a concentrated, savoury, medium-weighted persistent liquorice framed palate. The flavours are rich with underlying fruit sweetness, balancing acid, subtle oak and a mellow elegant soft tannin frame. Another memorable release in the mould of its predecessors.

Named after the Italian word for ‘fog’ [nebbia] Nebbiolo ripens in late autumn in the NSW Hilltops when mornings are indeed often foggy.

TASTING NOTES 

An intense medium ruby coloured wine marked by a distinctive varietal nose with attractive hints of rose petal and cherry over herbal notes leading to a concentrated, savoury, medium-fuller weight textural persistent palate. The flavours are rich, with underlying fruit sweetness, balancing acid, subtle oak and a modulated tannin frame. Another powerful release in the mould of its predecessors.

VINTAGE

The perfect dry autumn ripened the nebbiolo grapes to near perfection, fully ripe and flavour-packed, picked in late-April.

Named after the Italian word for ‘fog’ [nebbia] Nebbiolo ripens in late autumn in the NSW Hilltops when mornings are indeed often foggy.

TASTING NOTES 

An intense medium ruby coloured wine marked by a distinctive varietal nose with attractive hints of rose petal and cherry over herbal notes leading to a concentrated, savoury, medium-weight textural persistent palate. The flavours are rich, with underlying fruit sweetness, balancing acid, subtle oak and a modulated tannin frame.  Terrific length.

VINTAGE 

There is no other way to describe 2018 – it was a boomer! A dry cool spring was bolstered by rain after flowering that delivered balance and good yields. The perfect dry autumn ripened the nebbiolo grapes to near perfection, fully ripe and flavour-packed, picked in late-April.

Rated Number 1, 2018 Australian Nebbiolo, 5 Stars/ 95 POINTS, REAL REVIEW

Highly Recommended, 90 POINTS, Decanter