Puppet Master Prosecco NV
- 90
- $26
- Drink by: 2024-2026
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The winery suggests that with this fine local offering, one should read Jules Verne’s famous ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea’ or watch ‘The Abyss’. Seems to be a theme here. Perhaps next, we’ll be seeing the wines aged under the sea, as has been happening in Europe. The wine is a pale, luminous yellow with pleasing notes of minerals, chalk and citrus. There is a gentle hint of pineapple, lurking in the background. Juicy flavours, largely found upfront, this is clean and crisp with hints of pears emerging. Enjoy this now and for the next year or two.
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.
