Longview Whippet Adelaide Hills Sauvignon Blanc 2023
- 92
- $23
- Drink by: 2023-2025
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Following two stellar vintages in the Adelaide Hills region, 2023 is another fine, though cool year, making it a hattrick of top years here. The team source fruit from four of their highest blocks, all planted back in 1997 and 1998. After crushing, chilling and a touch of skin contact, there is a cool fermentation in stainless steel tanks. A very pale yellow hue, this is attractively focused and approachable thanks to notes of gooseberries and a pleasing lemony character with orange rind and citrus. There is also impressive length here. The flavours are very reminiscent of my grandmother’s gooseberry jam (it was seriously good jam). With bright acidity and a lingering finish, this provides fine drinking now and should continue to do so for the next few 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.
