Precious Little Adelaide Hills Macclesfield Grüner Veltliner 2022
- 92
- $25
- Drink by: 2022-2026
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The team at Precious Little source their grapes from premium regions best suited to those varieties. The famous Austrian white variety, Grüner Veltliner, sourced from the Macclesfield subregion of the Adelaide Hills, is the perfect example of this practice. Pale yellow in colour, the nose has classic Grüner notes with spices, dried herbs, a hint of nuts and crisp green apple, touches of stonefruit and just the merest whiff of pepper plus a minerally backing. Ripe flavours, as we move to the palate, where more stonefruit notes emerge. There is good balance, and decent length, through to an appealingly soft finish, which lingers pleasantly. Drink over the next three to four 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.
