Feudo Arancio Grillo 2022
- 91
- $22
- Drink by: 2023-2025
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The famous, if rarely seen these days, wine known as Marsala was made from the Grillo variety. In Sicily, Acate in the province of Ragusa, Grillo is made as a fresh and aromatic white, perfect for summer drinking. Harvested at night followed by a controlled fermentation and then ageing for five months in stainless steel tanks, on lees, with regular bâtonnage. A lovely yellow green in colour. There are notes of florals, gooseberries, some tropical touches and citrus. This is a fresh and quite punchy style and decent length is on offer here. A soft texture, with bright acidity, it is attractive drinking now and over the next couple of 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.
