Red Hut Gisborne Albariño 2025
- 90
- $22
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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Hails from New Zealand’s Gisborne region well-known for Chardonnay but now home to a small bunch of alternative varieties such as Albariño. It’s slow to start and open but grows nicely in the glass. Citrus blossom, lemon, lime zest, sweet ruby grapefruit and apple aromas. Arrives well-textured and smooth with a quiet restraint. Opens slowly with an attractive light savoury touch aligned to a palate that is crisp, dry and fresh with a lick of sweet lemon pastille to close.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
