First Ridge Alira Prosecco 2024
- 91
- $32
- Drink by: 2025-2028
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Prosecco under screwcap, fruit harvested from the high altitude vineyards around Mudgee, this has a deep straw colour. The team planted the first Prosecco in the region and it seems they have found a most suitable site. The aromas weave through spicy notes, a hint of lemon confection, herbs and a chalky backing. This is fresh with cleansing acidity. A wine of medium length which will offer very attractive drinking over the next two to three 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.
