Paracombe Adelaide Hills Sauvignon Blanc 2024
- 91
- $23
- Drink by: 2025-2027
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Good value Adelaide Hills Savvy here, from an impressive vintage, harvested from the estate and family vineyards. The colour is a very pale lemon with green flecks. This is quite an intense and herbal style, which broadens on the palate. At that stage, we see hints of mango and peach emerging, well supported by minerally notes. Some zippy acidity, the wine is of medium length and can be enjoyed 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.
