Jean Loren La Coronille Pouilly Fuisse 2022
- 92
- $120
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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Sadly, long gone are the days when this sort of money would buy you a bottle of Grand Cru Burgundy. That doesn’t mean you can’t drink well. 100% Chardonnay, of course, this wine shows just what terrific drinking some of the supposedly lesser appellations now offer. Under Diam. Gleaming yellow in colour, this is a slightly edgy style, which adds to its character. An intense wine with appealing notes of orange rind, spices, mangoes, almonds and gunflint. A supple texture, the wine lifts even further on the palate. There is an elegance here with good balance and medium to good length. It will provide thoroughly enjoyable drinking for the next 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.
