Cloak & Dagger The Dagger Pinot Grigio 2023
- 90
- $32
- Drink by: 2024-2027
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From northeast Victoria, the King and Alpine Valleys, this is a gleaming gold colour with hints of pink bronze, as the grape can sometimes provide. The team also offer a Pinot Gris, but this Grigio is from grapes harvested a little earlier for their bright acidity and more citrus notes, rather than stonefruit. No oak here (the Gris does see time in oak). Good focus, notes of freshly picked apples, florals and vibrant citrussy hints, this lingers nicely. Now and for 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.
