Made by Nebbiolo purists, for Nebbiolo purists... Treat it as a Barolo. 94 points. - Tyson Stelzer

Tar & Roses 2006 Nebbiolo
Tasting Notes

Tar & Roses

2006 Nebbiolo Reviews

94 POINTS
TYSON STELZER

Made by Nebbiolo purists, for Nebbiolo purists. If you're just discovering this variety, this wine is the place to finish your journey, not to start. It's emphatically structured, with those signature Nebbiolo tannins. Its flavours are all about, yes, tar and roses, with dried flower and aniseed hints. Treat it as Barolo.

92 POINTS
CAMPBELL MATTINSON

Successful wine. If we were set free to hook into this, we'd be very happy chaps indeed. It doesn't have depth or weight, but it does have power, its strident tannin and earthen, leathery, licoricey flavours driving through your mouth at a rate of delicious knots. Lots of integrated, tangy acidity, some eucalypt and a good deal of charm.

SALLY GUDGEON

Made by Don Lewis and Narelle King from Heathcote fruit, this smells of spice, wild flowers and dark berries, with sweet fruit on the front palate, firm tannins and bright acid.

JANE FAULKNER

This is a lovely Aussie nebbiolo that has all the heady aromatics of - surprise, surprise - tar and roses, so often associated with the variety that originally hails from Piedmont, Italy. Very pretty and fragrant on the nose with its floral notes, also cherries and riper fruit on the palate matched to grippy tannins.