Hewitson Favourite Child Mourvèdre 2020
- 93
- $50
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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From the oldest of the ‘selections massale’ of the Old Garden Mourvèdre, a famous Vineyard, these vines are 25 years of age – ideal for this style. The team use a high percentage of whole bunches in the extended fermentation, before the wine enjoys a further fifteen months maturation. An attractive purple/mauve colour. Gorgeously lifted perfumes with notes of mulberries, cloves, bay leaves and dried herbs. The wine is seamless and refined with good intensity on a very long finish. Delicious already, this has a long future, at least a decade.
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.
