Fetherston Magnolia King Valley Albarino 2024
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2026-2032
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Part of a range of attractively packaged Victorian wines, this is an impressive Albarino. From the Bettio vineyard in King Valley, the wine saw eighteen hours skin contact, before pressing into neutral oak vessels for fermentation and maturation. The wine then spent six months on lees before bottling. 275 dozen. Deep yellow in colour, this is concentrated and powerful, and attractively textured. There are notes of stone fruit, particularly apricots, with florals, nuts, ginger, hints of hazelnuts and a flick of honeycomb on the finish. Quite seductively structured with decent length, this wine shows just what the variety can do here. Enjoy it 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.
