Terre à Terre Les Crayères Reserve Fumé Blanc 2024
- 93
- $59
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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For this wine, the team ensure severe bunch thinning in the vineyard to help concentrate flavours. After whole bunch pressing, fermentation is in old 600-litre oak barrels called demi-muids. There is no malolactic fermentation and the wine remains in oak for the remainder of the year. 1,050 six-packs made. A straw hue, this is taut, tight and poised. There are early hints of complexity already evident, while the nose provides notes of citrus, grass and dried herbs. The wine has excellent length and balance and is well focused. An impressive version of this grape, even if somewhat different to what so many expect. It should drink impressively over the next six to eight 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.
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