Anselmi San Vincenzo 2023
- 92
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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Based on the region’s famous Garganega grape, this wine has almost a third of Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc incorporated. This leaves us with a wine that perhaps does not have quite the same focus we might have expected from straight Garganega but instead, provides a softer, more mellow style, though still delightfully pristine. Should be an absolute crowd-pleaser. Straw/yellow, the aromas exhibits notes of stone fruit, florals, lemons and ripe peaches with crushed herbs. Quite a fruit salad nose. The structure is seamless and it is a wine of medium weight with a flick of acidity and a lingering finish. Like this a lot, it should provide immense pleasure over the next three to five years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
