Little Wine Company Lyre Lyre 2023
- 91
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2027
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Named as a tribute to one of our most beloved native birds, and not as a result of a winemaker making outlandish claims about the wines. This is a blend of Verdelho, Pecorino and Albariño, grown in the Harrowby vineyard in the Broke Fordwich sub-region, and Vermentino, from the famous Roxburgh vineyard in the Upper Hunter Valley. It is, more than likely, the world’s only blend of these four varieties, although stranger things. Around 10% of the wine is fermented in older French oak. The ultimate fruit salad in a bottle. A green/yellow hue, this has a pleasing aroma, not unlike a Muscaty/Gewürztraminer character. Curious, but it is quite attractive. There are also notes of lavender, stone fruits, musk and Turkish Delight. Supple, with fine acidity, this offers both ripeness and a degree of sweetness, while there is solid minerally support. Enjoy it over the next couple of 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.
