Driftwood Artifacts Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2024
- 92
- $40
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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From Margaret River, this was once known as a ‘classic dry white’ blend for those in the West. The category was largely washed away by the Kiwi Sauvalanche of recent years, but you can’t keep a good wine down and we are seeing more and more examples making a comeback, providing interesting and enjoyable drinking. The colour is a pale lemon, while the nose is very much redolent of lemons and limes, along with a hint of the tropical. This is an exuberant and generous style, with a minerally backing and crunchy acidity with focus and good length. This is an impressive example and hopefully we’ll see more and more of these. For drinking over the next four to six 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.
