Artis Grüner Veltliner Adelaide Hills 2025
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- $40
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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The Adelaide Hills has proved itself an ideal region for Austria’s favourite grape, Grüner Veltliner. The fruit was from a single site, the Woodlands Ridge Vineyard, in the region and fermentation was in neutral oak with native yeasts. It was a very slow fermentation, taking over two months. The wine then spent a further three months on lees to enhance the texture. Pale gold/green in colour, the nose is dominated by appealing stone fruit notes, but there is also a hint of the tropicals and some spicy notes as well. Apricots and nectarines are to the fore. The highlight is surely the texture, which is wonderfully creamy. The wine is nicely balanced, focused and layered with a long, lingering finish. A delicious Grüner for drinking over the next six to eight years. Love it.
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.
