Frankland Estate Riesling 2025
- 94
- $35
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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Cracking value Riesling from the Great Southern in Western Australia, the wine is fermented almost entirely in stainless steel and then spends four months on lees to enhance the texture. The fruit is sourced from a range of vineyards on the estate. Pale lemon in hue, this is beautifully structured. Intense, with minerally notes, talc, citrus and florals, limes and grapefruit, with a hint of honeysuckle, the structure is seamless, and there is impeccable balance, focus and length. This will drink delightfully for the next fifteen 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.
