Richard Hamilton La Valle McLaren Vale Fiano 2024
- 92
- $26
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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McLaren Vale Fiano continues to excite wine lovers, deservedly so. A yellow straw hue here, there are notes of stone fruits, hazelnuts, quince, white peaches and even a touch of mango. The texture is rather seductive and supple, while there is good concentration and even a little grip here. Medium length and good intensity, this is a very fine example of Fiano and should offer pleasure for the next five to six 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.
