Little Giant Little Batch Barossa Montepulciano 2024
- 92
- $27
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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Montepulciano is a variety that is gaining a foothold across vineyards around Australia and the Barossa seems to be presenting us with some of the most exciting examples – needless to say, the name has largely been shortened to Monte in the usual Aussie style. There is a small percentage of new French oak involved in the maturation of this wine. This is good buying. The colour is an inky dark purple. The nose reveals notes of plums, red cherries, mulberries, milk chocolate, florals, smoked meats, bay leaves, leather and bacon fat. Cracking drinking, this is bursting with freshness, energy and flavour. There is juicy acidity prevalent in this mouthwatering style, a wine of good length, which does offer a little grip on the finish. Love it. Now and for the next three to five years. The flavours and simplicity of the wine make it ideal for a good barbecue or a pizza in front of the Friday night footy.
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.
