Castle Rock A&W 2024
- 96
- $50
- Drink by: 2024-2044
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This is Rob’s annual tribute to his parents, Angelo and Wendy, who founded the estate. The fruit comes from the best performing Riesling blocks on the estate each vintage, indeed, hand-harvested from the pick of the rows. The wine spends four months on lees, post ferment. A pale green/gold hue, the wine has aromas weaving through citrus, again those limes and grapefruit pith, with florals and that minerally chalky support. A wine of good energy, with focus and length, juicy acidity and that impressive length, with the intensity of flavour never wavering. Cracking Riesling. Fifteen to twenty years potential here.
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.
