Longview Fresco 2021
- 91
- $28
- Drink by: 2023-2025
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Summer reds do not have to be silly and frivolous. No reason they can’t be seriously good wines, which just happen to suit our warmer conditions. This fine example is an Adelaide Hills blend, a combo of 37.5% Nebbiolo, 35.5% Pinot Nero, 16% Barbera and 11% Dolcetto. The immediate impression is a pale crimson wine redolent of strawberries, cherries, bright and yet soft with red fruit notes plus a touch of bay leaves. Gentle tannins though deceptively grippy before a finish with decent length and surprises with its intensity plus a texture that is appealingly gentle. Drink over the next couple of years. Chill this cracking Summer red too, if that is your thing.
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.
