Small Victories Rosé 2025
- 92
- $29
- Drink by: 2026-2028
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A thoroughly delicious Rosé, with all of the fruit sourced from the family’s Greenock Vineyard in the Barossa Valley. It is a blend of bush vine Grenache and Mataro, as well as those same grapes from slightly younger vines, and some Cinsault to top things off. After fermentation, the wine spent several months on lees to enhance texture and weight. The colour here is a slightly pale pink, while the nose reveals notes of dry herbs, gentle red fruits, spices, hints of cherries and raspberries. The wine has balance, freshness and energy throughout, with quite zesty acidity. Of medium length, this will provide ideal summer drinking over the next couple of 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.
