Mezzacorona Ventessa Pinot Grigio (Low Calorie) 2025
- 90
- $20
- Drink by: 2026-2028
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We are seeing more and more Pinot Grigio from the Trentino region in northern Italy, where it has obviously found a most welcome home. This version, from alpine vineyards, is a low calorie, reduced alcohol style. 90 calories per serve and 9% alcohol. A serve is considered, technically, to be five ounces, and we will leave any conversion to yourselves. Pale yellow in hue, the nose offers notes of apples, minerals, pears, wet rock, florals and river stones. Even a flick of ginger. Very much upfront flavours and there is no real length here, but is fresh with a little crunchy acidity and certainly quite pleasant. And has the added bonus of lack of calories and lower alcohol. Two 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.
