Feudo Arancio Grillo 2025
- 92
- $20
- Drink by: 2026-2029
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The Grillo grape, which does so well in Sicily, is taking longer than some of us might have hoped to establish itself as more than just a curiosity in this country. Try this wine and it is very hard not to wonder why. Love it. One of the better examples of this variety I have seen from this team (I think I said that last year – they just keep getting better), and I think that over the next few years, we will see this improve even more. Dark lemon with flecks of green, there is a lovely tropical character on the nose. We have mangoes and passionfruit as well as peaches and a flick of citrus. Ripe and delicious now, it would certainly reward drinking in the next year or two while these flavours dominate, but I do think it has an intriguing future. A wine of medium length with a firm finish and crunchy acidity. Such good value.
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.
