Parched Crow Semillon 2022
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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A very young Hunter Semillon which will undoubtedly benefit from time in the cellar, though many will enjoy its youthful pleasures. A very pale, clear yellow. There is quite a pungent nose with spices, citrus, most notably grapefruit, and a minerally backing. The palate is very long and has good focus with hints of lime emerging. A wine with a good decade of drinking ahead of it, although for me, it really does need a year or two to settle, before it will start providing the excellent drinking to come.
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.
