Kyneton Ridge Vermentino 2024
- 92
- $32
- Drink by: 2024-2027
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Brings the Italian variety’s famous ‘bite’ – like sucking on grapefruit pith – to the glass, adding an extra layer to what is a little textural, flavoursome wonder. Vermentino can be quite shy, not so here. Sourced from Metcalfe, on the Macedon Ranges-Heathcote border, it boasts scents in apple blossom, wild chervil, grapefruit and Meyer lemon. Plenty of flavour mixes with a warm texture before finishing brisk and clean. Amid the citrus and almond kernel there are touches of an earthy savoury influence and that characteristic almond skin or grapefruit pith bitter bite. Delish.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
