Feudo Arancio Hekata Passito 2020
- 93
- $65/375ml
- Drink by: 2024-2034+
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This delightful sweetie is a blend of Chardonnay, Viognier and Inzolia. Named as a tribute to Hekate, a Greek goddess, guardian of youth and bestower of kindness and wealth. The grapes hail from Sicily, where they are naturally dried, becoming rather raisin-like which concentrates the sugars. A burnt orange colour, this is simply dripping honey and treacle. It is luscious and richly flavoured. Honey notes run the length and there are ripe stonefruit characters, peaches and apricots with touches mandarin. It is well balanced and there is a clean and non-cloying finish. Drink for ten years plus.
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.
