Little Wine Co Little Gem Pecorino 2025
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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With this version of Pecorino, the team were looking to bring forth complexity and texture, rather than just the pristine fruit which we see with their earlier style. 40% of free run juice is fermented on full solids by way of a wild fermentation in older French barriques. The pressings are fermented in oak as well, and contribute around 20% of the volume. The fruit is from a single vineyard in the Hunter Valley. Deep straw in colour, we have some crisp apple notes with dried herbs, fresh pears and a hint of apricot kernels. The texture is supple and seductive. There is a line of fine acidity and the wine does have good persistence. It can be enjoyed over the next four to six 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.
