Prometheus Barbera 2021
- 89
- $24.99
- Drink by: 2021-2023
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This prolific Italian variety is making a mark here. Popular in Piedmont, this one is from the Riverland and exhibits the typical contrast the variety offers – lots of colour, vibrant acidity, good flavour and weight yet gentle, soft tannins. The flavours here are to the warm earth end of the spectrum. Dry herbs and cherries with hints of roast meats. It is a pleasing style and there is probably no reason not to enjoy it over the next 6 to 12 months but if a bottle or two got lost in the cellar for an extra year, it would not be the end of the world.
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.
