Hollick Coonawarra Sauvignon Blanc 2025
- 92
- $27
- Drink by: 2026-2030
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Coonawarra is probably not the first place most of us turn to when seeking quality Sauvignon Blanc, but there are always exceptions, and this is certainly one of them. The team allow a little lees contact to enhance texture and complexity. The colour is a near transparent straw. This is a strongly varietal Sauvignon Blanc, for anyone wanting to go back to basics to see what the grape offers. There are hints of grassy and herbal notes with spices and nettles. Even a touch of stone fruit lurks below. The wine has a minerally support system and line of good acidity. There is good energy and focus here, in this wine of medium length. Drink this anytime over the next four 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.
