Tenafeate Creek Blush One Tree Hill Sparkling 2025
- 90
- $35
- Drink by: 2026-2028
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Preservative free and made from 100% Sangiovese, this Sparking Rose has just five grams per litre dosage, leaving it on the drier side. It is a single vineyard wine, the Southern One Tree Hill vineyard, and spent three months on yeast lees to build some weight and complexity. A faded red/burnt orange hue, the nose reveals hints of florals, cherries, red berries, hints of tomato bushes, very gentle wild raspberries and a touch of leafiness. There is fruit sweetness here with the freshness, a bright wine of medium length which will provide easy drinking over the next two 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.
