Russell & Suitor Alejandro Saperavi 2025
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2026-2031
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This younger version of the famous Georgian Saperavi grape is sourced from the Riverland. Again, both French and American oak have been used in the winemaking. There is no hiding the power and promise of this variety. Opaque maroon with a dark plum rim, this is big and bold and, while it may seem self-evident, the flavours are very much what we might term “grapey”. The wine also offers notes of chocolate, plums, coffee beans, Ribena, mulberries and aniseed. Ripe and delicious, this is still obviously very young and should be a cracker in another three to five years. The fine line of acidity runs through to sleek tannins in this wine of good length. Lots of promise here.
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.
