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Watkins Ruscello Sangiovese 2022
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- $26
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Cold soaking after harvest and then two weeks on skins with eight months maturation. The fruit is from the Langhorne Creek. The wine is a soft crimson hue, while the nose exhibits some lovely and rather obvious varietal notes. Animal skins, bay leaves, roast meats, warm earth, raspberries and dried herbs, with sour red cherries on the finish. There is bright acidity running the length and a lingering finish. A joy to drink now but should continue to provide pleasure for at least half a dozen 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.
