Cox Family Wines Tumbarumba Pinot Grigio 2024
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- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2028
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The high altitude vineyards at Tumbarumba are proving to be most suitable for Pinot Grigio. The grapes underwent a gentle pressing and a cool fermentation for just over two weeks. Subsequently, the wine spent three months on lees. A pale lemon hue, the nose is very much in the crowd-pleasing style – never a bad thing – with hints of pears, spices, citrus and gentle florals. There is a fine line of soft acidity and a slightly crisp finish, before a slow fade. Enjoy this for the next two to three 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.
