Risky Business King Valley Pinot Gris 2025
- 92
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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From the King Valley in Victoria, fermentation was in stainless steel. The wine did spend time on lees prior to bottling to enhance the complexity and texture. The colour is a near invisible yellow. Still very young, the wine is tight, coiled and quite intense. The nose gives us hints of pears, florals, crisp green apples, a touch of stone fruit and some spicy notes. An impressive and most enjoyable Pinot Gris, there is a touch of crunchy acidity and a lingering finish. A wine of medium length, enjoy this over the next three to five 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.
