Mezzacorona Ventessa Pinot Grigio 2023
- 90
- $20
- Drink by: 2024-2025
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A lower alcohol version here, just 9%, this is also lower in calories (or kilojoules) – 90 calories per five ounces, but you’ll have to do your own calculations. From the Trentino region in Italy, with its alpine vineyards, it is a deep lemon/gold, with spices, florals, stonefruit and citrus on the nose. A wine of medium length, which does fade gently, and a soft texture, this is a drink now style that picks up points for the low calories and alcohol.
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.
