Paisley Linen Fiano 2025
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2026-2030
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Part of the Fashionable Fabrics series of wines which relate back to the Scottish town of Paisley near Glasgow, the birthplace of the current custodian’s great-great-grandfather, who came to South Australia in 1839. Fermentation commences in stainless steel but is then finished in five-year-old barrels along with 20% of solids to enhance mouthfeel and texture. The wine then spends four months maturing on lees, with weekly stirring. Deep straw/gold, this is pungent and intense. No shrinking violet here. We have notes of hazelnuts, stone fruits, almonds and glacéd lemons. A ripe style with juicy acidity freshening the wine, it has good length and should drink well for the next four years. Quite delicious, it is a rather muscular style for a white and would reward a rich chicken dish.
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.
