Pertaringa Scarecrow Sauvignon Blanc 2025
- 91
- $28
- Drink by: 2025-2028
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This really is a family act. The vines which provided the grapes were 60% in the Kuitpo subregion of the Adelaide Hills, a vineyard planted by Bec’s father, Geoff Hardy, in the 1990s, with the remaining 40% from a Lower Tintara vineyard in McLaren Vale, planted by Bec’s great-great-grandfather, Thomas Hardy, in the 1880s. The wine is a very pale lemon colour. It is well balanced and of medium length, with the nose offering tropical notes, notably passionfruit, along with some citrus. There is juicy acidity, good balance and a freshness here. The wine would be best drunk sooner rather than later, but anytime over the next two to three years will suffice.
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.
