Little Wine Co Vermentino 2025
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2029
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This delicious Italian variety is fast becoming a firm favourite among local wine lovers and surely headed for mainstream status. It is certainly well suited to the Hunter Valley and our warmer regions. It may surprise some of our more experienced (read older) wine lovers to discover that these grapes came from the legendary Roxburgh Vineyard in the Upper Hunter Valley. This was the source of some of Australia’s earliest cult Chardonnays. The variety is most certainly a grape which is suited to late picking, with harvesting taking place after the team had brought in all of their Hunter reds. Pale lemon, the nose weaves through notes of florals, apricot kernels, stone fruits and crushed nuts. It is actually worth giving this time in the glass, or even better a decanter. That will help to see all of its glories unfurl. The wine has a minerally support and a lingering finish. It is a fine example of the variety. Enjoy it over the next three to 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.
