Paracombe Sauvignon Blanc 2025
- 92
- $23
- Drink by: 2026-2029
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Good value Sauvignon Blanc from the Adelaide Hills, the wine exhibits a mix of slate/minerally notes together with some rather exuberant passionfruit and citrus. The fruit is harvested from a range of family sites. A near transparent pale lemon hue, the nose offers notes of orange rind, citrus, passionfruit and stone fruits. The wine lifts further on the palate and is a delightfully vibrant style with a line of juicy acidity. Of medium length with appealing freshness, there is a lingering finish, and the wine should provide attractive drinking over the next three years. This is as good an example of this variety as I have seen from this team.
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.
