Moss Brothers Wild Garden Organic Chenin Blanc 2022
- 92
- $55
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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A much underrated variety which always offers interest. It is also a grape which can offer amazing longevity. A bottle or two of this well cellared, will be drinking well in a decade or more. Part of the new Organic range, the colour is a gleaming gold/yellow. Lovely lifted aromatics with spices and lemony notes plus some honeysuckle and hints of stewed apples plus the merest hint of the traditional hessian character that this grape so often exhibits. Slightly puckering acidity at this early stage and good grip on a powerful palate with excellent length. Still young, there is a hint of nuts lurking about on the palate. Worth trying now but do put some away.
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.
