Zonte’s Footsteps Love Symbol Grenache McLaren Vale 2023
- 92
- $36
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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It is a Grenache with lots to love. Deep crimson, the nose gives us red fruits, florals and dried herbs, with raspberries and cherries to the fore. There are also gentle cigar box notes with plums and a hint of bergamot. A very attractive style of Grenache with good focus, juicy acidity and fine tannins, if a little sandy at times. Quite an elegant style which will drink beautifully over the next half 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.
