Gundog Estate Chase Semillon 2025
- 94
- $37
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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The team at Gundog Estate offer a range of wines from Semillon, the white hero for the Hunter Valley. The aim for this one is to ensure a wine which will age and improve the way the best Semillon can. From two vineyards in the region, they use only juice from the gentle first pressing. 470 cases. The colour is a pale, rather dilute lemon. The wine is tight, taut, poised and well-focused. There are hints of citrus, garden greens, jasmine, dry herbs, florals and grapefruit notes. Excellent length here, the wine has energy and drive with a lingering finish and we will see it blossom even more in the years to come. Drink over the next ten to twelve years but in good cellars, it could easily go twice that distance.
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.
