Crabtree Semillon 2025
- 92
- $34
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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Clare Valley Semillon is not a particularly common style, but it works well here. Maturation was in large format oak. From the Watervale subregion. A yellow straw hue, the nose gives us notes of pears, stone fruits, hazelnuts and marzipan. There is even the vaguest whiff of a tropical note. Still youthful, obviously, there is good intensity here in this wine of medium length, as well as bright acidity. Freshness is apparent, but this should still age well for at least the next six to ten 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.
