Gundog Estate Wild Semillon 2024
- 93
- $36
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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This is an estate keen to expand the envelope and to see just what traditional Hunter Semillon can achieve. Here, a small portion of the wine is fermented on skins (usually, a red wine technique), and they have used wild yeasts. It all adds to the complexity and especially the texture. The colour here is a near transparent lemon – this is all a little bit exotic. It is young, fresh and intense, a wine of medium length. There are notes of ginger, citrus and a touch of stone fruit. The wine is clean, fresh and crisp, and with that added textural aspect, it is ideal for a gentle style of seafood or possibly chicken thanks to vibrant acidity. Off dry, but really only in the mildest way. Enjoy now and for the next six 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.
