Mezzacorona Pinot Grigio 2024
- 91
- $20
- Drink by: 2025-2027
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The grapes for this fresh and bright Italian Pinot Grigio are harvested from vines grown on the Trentino Alto Adige region’s traditional pergola system, something we don’t really see here. This is from the Delle Venezia DOC to be specific. It was granted DOC status in 2017, thanks to the quality of its Pinot Grigio. This is great buying for anyone looking to try Pinot Grigio from its spiritual home. The colour is a straw/pale grey. Quite a pungent nose, with pears, crisp green apples, riverstones and a minerally backing. There is good concentration here, with hints of bitter almonds emerging at the finish. Seamless in structure, with good intensity, there is quite a pleasing and slightly creamy texture and good length. Top value, this will drink well 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.
