Ruggabellus - Eden Valley
We have just received the new releases from store favourite Ruggabellus. Always a great time when we receive these, though always few and far between. Very limited stock of the premium wines as usual. - FWC.
"Emma and I are grateful to do what we do. We love seeing our wines offered in good places. To see them contributing to memorable dining experiences has been a foundation upon which our style of wine has been built. This year we have made the decision to release well before the Spring. A few years experience has taught us how valuable it is to be in our vineyard at that time of year, and a string of low yielding years has driven home that importance. This tricky period has provided a good time for us to reflect. We’ve come a long way. The vision is still much the same - to make small amounts of thoughtful, age worthy wine - to be enjoyed with friends and food in their youth, and as they age - evoke a sense of wonder for those who have made the effort to cellar them." - Abel Gibson, Ruggabellus.
Ruggabellus Efferus 2019
Usually the wine that speaks loudly of Mataro and from vineyards around the Barossa. Gosh, Ruggabellus wines have such charisma. Fresh and dark fruited, inky and potent yet lifts on game meat, clove and cinnamon spice. a blood orange juice slosh and light, herbal detail. Lots of perfume, a fog of dark berries, woody spices and fresh turned earth and undergrowth. Lovely stuff. Long in flavour, sappy and then a building rumble of silty tannins to conclude the wine with nutty, gamey characters lingering. Not a heavy wine, but one with lots of presence, savouriness and depth. Very good. Drink 2021-2029, 93 Points – Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
