Zonte’s Footstep Shades of Gris Adelaide Hills Pinot Grigio 2022
- 92
- $27.50
- Drink by: 2023-2027
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Always great fun to review the Zonte’s Footstep wines – cracking wines, brilliant value and some weird and wacky labels. Some work better than others, but one can’t have everything. This one is very clever on a number of levels, although I am not certain that a treatise on the struggle between Muse and Melpomene is quite the marketing that will sell truckloads. From the Adelaide Hills, this is a pale lemon. There are notes of bright, crisp pears with citrusy notes plus hints of peach. A pleasingly supple texture, juicy flavours and crunchy acidity finishing with very good length. Delightful drinking now but will offer pleasure for at least the next three to four years, if you prefer to wait. It does hover between the two styles – Gris and Grigio – which is, I guess, the point.
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.
