Gundog Indomitus Rosa Hilltops Sangiovese 2025
- 92
- $40
- Drink by: 2026-2029
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This is the second version the team has made of their Sangiovese Rosé, from the Freeman vineyards in the Hilltops region of New South Wales. The wine was given twelve hours of skin contact to provide the colour, before barrel fermentation with wild yeasts. It was left on those yeast lees for a further period of six months to enhance texture. 270 dozen made. The colour is a pale orange/onion skin hue. Quite an exotic style of Rose with aromas of dry herbs, strawberries, kirsch, florals, aniseed, orange rinds and raspberries. The wine is of medium length and will provide a lot of pleasure over the next two to three 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.
