Churchview Soli Grenache 2024
- 91
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2027
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Margaret River Grenache is not a commonly encountered beast but surely an intriguing one. This is actually verging more on a serious rose/light red than what one might consider with a typical Grenache, but it is none the worse for that. Young and fresh, there are bright strawberry and cherry aromas. It is clean and fresh – yes, that freshness is a key component – and there are even some of the variety’s standard silty and silky tannins. A wine of medium length for drinking now and over the next couple of 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.
