Little Wine Company Pecorino 2024
- 92
- $28
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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For most, the name refers to a hard Italian cheese made from sheeps’ milk. There is a link. The grape was given the same name – ‘pecora’ means sheep – as the vines grew along the routes taken by the shepherds when bringing the sheep down from the mountains. Needless to say, it is not a common variety here in Australia but it is certainly worth exploring. It seems well suited to the Hunter with a tolerance for warmer conditions and a lack of water. A green/gold hue, the nose gives us notes of stone fruits, nuts, spices, apricot skins and figs. The structure is a wine of poise, tight, with medium length and crisp acidity. A most likeable wine, one that will provide attractive drinking for up to five years. Those with a touch of the mischievous to them might like to include it in a blind tasting, because good luck to anyone trying to pick it.
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.
