First Ridge Vermentino 2025
- 91
- $28
- Drink by: 2026-2030
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Another extremely successful wine when it comes to the show circuit, the colour here is a very pale straw. On the nose, we have notes of stewed pears, green apples, stone fruits, sun-kissed earth, melon and florals. Quite upfront in style, there is a minerally texture and impressive length. A wine of medium weight which is delicious drinking now, it will continue to be so for at least the next three to four 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.
