Tim Smith Roussanne 2025
- 92
- $45
- Drink by: 2026-2030
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Maturation here was in older French oak barrels with the wine spending six months on lees. This variety has been responsible for a serious contribution to some of the great white wines from the Rhone Valley in France, but it seems woefully neglected in this country. Wines like this will help correct that. Gold/straw in colour, the nose exhibits notes of nectarines, almonds, rockmelons, stone fruits and hints of some tropical touches as well, all rather appealingly exotic. Ripe, intense and driven, there is a supple and rather seductive texture here with good intensity throughout, which continues on through the finish. Wines like this are ideal when you’re looking for a level of richness and flavour, rather than elegance, making it a great choice for bolder dishes which demand white wine. Enjoy this over the next four 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.
