Haselgrove Alternative Series Pinot Grigio Adelaide Hills 2024
- 92
- $26
- Drink by: 2024-2029
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The Small Batch series represents a Mediterranean nod to varieties that thrive in that climate. This Adelaide Hills Pinot Grigio is a new addition. It spent a little time on skins to increase texture and complexity, with a small percentage of pressings included to improve the feel and weight of the wine. The colour here is a deep yellow straw. Aromatic, lifted and expressive on the nose, with delightful notes of spicy stewed pears, citrus, and a touch of cinnamon. This is a riper style, quite generous, with oodles of flavour. A wine which is finely balanced and which offers good length, it will provide attractive drinking for the next three to five 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.
