Zonte’s Footsteps Excalibur Sauvignon Blanc Adelaide Hills 2025
- 92
- $28
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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A very pale lemon hue, this is clean and fresh and very aromatic, with the perfumes filling the room upon opening. The focus is indeed ‘rapier-like’. Good energy and direction, there is juicy acidity and notes of grapefruit, nettles, passionfruit and lemon. Even a touch of my grandmother’s wonderful gooseberry jam is evident. A very fine example of Adelaide Hills Savvy with impressive length, this will drink well for at least the next six years, although there seems no reason to hesitate.
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.
