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Shanteh Wale

Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.
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Soumah Hexham Vineyard Savarro 2025

What a wine to get you to step out of your box. The folk at Soumah have always championed Savarro...
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Foreign Friends Barbera 2025

Give this a swift decant and you’ll be met with blood plums, mulberry and notes of cherry cola. There are...
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Foreign Friends Gamay 2025

Gamay grapes from Yarra Valley, this opens with mulled spice, orange, bergamot and cinnamon. Stewed raspberries and lingonberries. Some sumac...
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Foreign Friends Chenin Blanc 2025

A postage stamp from cool climate Victoria, this brings the rustling leaves of apple trees into light with white pear,...
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Foreign Friends Savagnin 2025

An edible wine that invokes peach, fresh apricots and honeysuckle. Some kernel and candlenut ground into a mortar and pestle....
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Craggy Range Te Kahu 2024

There is grandeur here with a cavalier sense of style. Cassis, licorice all-sorts, bracken and turned potting soil. A fine...
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Craggy Range Syrah 2024

Utter seduction in a glass. The 2024 shows staining beetroot and blood plums, some orange oils, a shrubbery of stalky...
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Craggy Range Te Muna Sauvignon Blanc 2025

A wine with good fruit power but offset by some wet stone and chalk dust. Pineapple, passion blossom, celery heart...
GIMBLETT GRAVELS CHARDONNAY ()

Craggy Range Chardonnay 2024

A lifted wine with energy and richness in quick succession. You are first met with yellow apples, white peach and...
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Anvers Kingsway Chardonnay 2025

A wine of apples are yellow tree fruit, some honeysuckle too. Oatmeal and churned cream expands the width of the...
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Anvers Block 8 Pinot Noir 2025

A punchy Pinot Noir with a thicket of whole bunch and glossy Acai berries and Bing cherries. A hint of...
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Anvers Gamay 2025

A wine with quiet authority, confident in its blackberried fruit core supported by plums and mulberry with a touch of...
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Irvine Spring Hill Pinot Gris 2025

This is invigorating with pear drop, green kiwi and finger limes. A jazzy entry into citrus and tree fruit, with...
IRVINE SPRING HILL EV RIESLING

Irvine Spring Hill Riesling 2025

Excellent value here and a wine that screams Eden Valley with small orchard apples, backyard lemons and Frangipani flowers. This...
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Irvine Spring Hill Shiraz 2022

Well, there sure is a lot of flavour here for your dollars. Lush ripe blackberries, boysenberries, chocolate and clove. There...
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Irvine Altitude Barossa Valley Shiraz 2023

Raspberry bullets, Gala apple skin and crushed cardamom seed. Some cola and black pepper spice with cedar and tobacco richness...
IRVINE Altitude EV Shiraz

Irvine Altitude Eden Valley Shiraz 2023

Matured for 18 months in 300L hogsheads. This wine speaks of the cooler growing condition in Eden Valley clearly. A...
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Irvine Altitude Eden Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

A classically framed wine with cassis, blackberry compote and dark olive skin. Some Acai berries and lavender leaves. There has...
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Holm Oak Chardonnay 2025

Three clones of Chardonnay were racked to 30% new French oak barrels and the remainder in seasoned oak. 50% went...
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Holm Oak Pinot Gris 2025

10% of the fruit is wild fermented and into older oak barrels with 10% wild ferment in the tank. This...
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Holm Oak Arneis 2025

25% of the wine is transferred to Numblot egg and the rest into seasoned oak barrels. A wine with fleshy...
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Holm Oak The Protege Pinot Noir 2025

You might first remark on the glistening pink hues of this vintage in the glass, either that or the pretty...
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Hare’s Chase Hare and Hound Cabernet Shiraz 2022

This is a wine that will comfort you from within, it begins with a basket of blackberries and blood plums,...
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Hare’s Chase Mataro Rosé 2025

A delicate, pale salmon hue in the glass. The wine opens with rockmelon and nectarine, some two tone strawberries and...

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The McLaren Vale Wine Guide 2026

By Shanteh Wale McLaren Vale’s success lies not only in the quality of its wines and the careful custodianship of...
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