Feudo Arancio Queto Grillo 2021
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Organic Grillo from Sicily, a controlled fermentation for ten days in stainless steel tanks, followed by five days resting on lees. A gleaming gold colour here, there is a degree of austerity with this wine. Notes of stone fruits with a minerally backing, before we see some delightful citrus characters emerge – lemons and limes – and a line of saline acidity. The wine is well focused and with very good length. Grillo may not be on everyone’s lips, excuse the pun, but perhaps it should be. Enjoy 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.
