Days & Daze Sunswill Pinot Gris 2022
- 91
- $21
- Drink by: 2023-2024
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Days n’ Daze is a fun new range offering good value and fabulous flavours. It is apparently nothing to do, according to my research, with an American band from Houston in Texas called Days n’ Daze, which plays a style of music, rather improbably dubbed ‘folk punk’ and more specifically, ‘H-Town Thrashgrass’. I might stick to my Dylan and The Boss. The Sunswill Pinot Gris is described as a ‘shiny happy wine’, bringing in yet more musical links – thank you, REM. Pale yellow in colour, the nose exhibits rather delicious notes of crisp nashi pears and fresh green apples. There is a hint of a minerally background running below the surface. Dense and yet seductive with a supple texture, there is fresh, bright acidity and decent length offering classic Pinot Gris characters. Drinking now would be terrific and make sure it is served chilled.
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.
