Gundog Estate Off-Dry Semillon 2022
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2022-2030
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At just 8% alcohol, this wine is dangerous. It would be so easy to just keep guzzling it. Yet if you suggested an off-dry Sem to most people, you’d be knocked over in the rush to escape. This is guilty pleasure stuff. The sweetness is noticeable, but it is simply one aspect of the wine and a rather minor one at that. The colour here is the palest yellow. We have notes of florals, passionfruit and pineapple, ginger and lemon. But it is the florals which weave the most entrancing spell. That flicker of sweetness does linger beautifully, but is so well balanced with the fresh acidity that it simply becomes part of the overall package. Perfect for summer drinking, this will provide pleasure for at least 5 to 8 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.
