Aylesbury Estate QO5 Vermentino 2025
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2026-2031
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Vermentino has certainly established itself in some of our warmer regions like McLaren Vale. It is now doing so across in the West and it will be interesting to see if it can reach the same heights in time. The early signs are good. This is certainly a fine example. The nose reveals attractive notes of pears, lemon curd, crisp green apples, citrus and melon, together with a hint of oystershell. A wine with good intensity which runs the full length, this is well balanced and there is power throughout, matched only by the promise for the future. Love this. A really good Vermentino for enjoying over the next 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.
