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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.
Handpicked Single Vineyard Highbow Hill Pinot Noir

Handpicked Highbow Hill Chardonnay 2024

A wine with crystalline purity of Meyer lemon and finger lime droplets. Subtle sparkler flint, pumice stone and creamy sawdust...
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Handpicked Wombat Creek Chardonnay 2024

The elevated site has fared very well this vintage with high tones of Lemon myrtle, lemongrass and green apple but...
Handpicked Collection Pinot Noir Mornington

Handpicked Collection Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir 2024

What I love about the Collection wines is the confidence of showcasing an entire region in one bottle, not only...
Bottleshot NV HP Collection Pinot Noir (Yarra Valley) ()

Handpicked Collection Yarra Valley Pinot Noir 2024

A wine that dances with glittering redcurrants on the vine, some Lingonberries and musk strawberries. Raspberry ice, crunchy acid line...
Handpicked Collection Tasmania Pinot Noir

Handpicked Collection Tasmania Pinot Noir 2024

Fruit is from two sites in Northern Tasmania, across the Tamar Valley, with quite diverse picking times. Here the wine...
Bottleshot NV HP Single Vineyard Capella Pinot Noir (Mornington Peninsula)

Handpicked Capella Vineyard Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir 2024

Handpicked’s home site and a wine I always look forward to tasting each year. This is a beauty, soft raspberries...
Classic Dry Red

Vasse Felix Classic Dry Red 2025

A blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Malbec this is 100% wild yeast, 100% whole berry and spends maturation in...
Scarlet Ladybird

Zonte’s Footsteps Scarlett Ladybird 2025

A ruby hue in the glass, the colour giving a good indication that this isn’t trying to replicate the southern...
Salo BSHOT Chardonnay LR

Salo Chardonnay 2025

Fruit is from the Full Moon vineyard on red and brown volcanic soils in Gladysdale. This will be the last...
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Aramis Vineyards Willunga Creek Reserve Shiraz 2022

A witches brew of a wine and one that would benefit from a decant to allow the pool of blackberries,...
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Jim Barry Benbournie Cabernet Sauvignon 2013

A wine with deep colour and a perfume of Rosella, tulip and boysenberries. The wine is packed with black plum...
Small Island Enso Coal River Pinot Noir ()

Small Island Enso Coal River Pinot Noir 2025

100% Coal River fruit – across from Pooleys premium sites. A very fragrant and perfumed wine that invokes lavender, rosehip...
WT Heirloom Vineyards King's Garden Barossa Valley Shiraz

Heirloom Vineyards King’s Garden Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022

Hand-picked from premium Barossa Valley vineyards, the wine spends 18 months maturation in American and French oak barrels. This is...
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Hardys Thomas Hardy Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

Fruit is from Margaret River 95%, McLaren Vale 5%. Blackcurrant, cassis and steeped cherries in dark tea. This is showing...
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Bekkers McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2024

This vintage is entirely sourced from the Bekkers Clarendon Vineyard Estate. Predominantly Cabernet Sauvignon with around 14% Cabernet Franc. Familiar...
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Bekkers Syrah 2024

A blend of five parcels from Clarendon 40%  and Seaview 60%. 18% whole bunch is used. Like kneeling amongst a...
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Bekkers Clarendon Syrah Single Vineyard Selection 2024

Entirely made up of fruit from the Bekkers Clarendon Vineyard Estate. Take what you think you know of McLaren Vale...
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Blue Gables Ashton Pinot Noir 2025

The 2025 vintage is showing some deeper and darker blackberried fruit, Acai, plum and Bing cherries. There is a cool...
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Blue Gables Ashton Pinot Noir 2024

The Ashton Pinot Noir is such an intoxicating wine and one that provides allurement in its aromas and further textural...
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Blue Gables Doña Teresa Sangiovese 2025

This is a wine with a halo of blue fruit, some soft leafy herbs and a floral lift of violet....
BG KeithThomRESShiraz

Blue Gables Keith Thomas Reserve Shiraz 2024

The 2024 Keith Thomas is a marriage of intense black fruit and earthy savoury notes that fold well into one...
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Blue Gables Hanratty Hill Shiraz 2025

A witches brew of blackberries, Davidson plum and pepperberries. Some cassis there too, there is a spring of mint subtle...
BG JesseChardonnay

Blue Gables Jesse Chardonnay 2025

A very open and generous wine with soft peach, apricot and honeysuckle flowing from the glass. Some creme caramel, cinnamon...
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Eastern Peake Griffins Road Pinot Noir 2025

Fruit is from the Griffins Road vineyard thanks to Pat Griffin’s early plantings in 1990, despite vines disappearing in the...

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Dawning Day Farms

Dawning Day Farms is a micro-vineyard in Exeter, in the Southern Highlands. Michael and Katrina Archer branched out into winemaking...
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Greg Clack believes that each vineyard possesses its own inherent aptitude — a natural ability for growing grapes that express...
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Sheehan Vineyards

Nick Sheehan purchased three distinguished sites in the upper reaches of the Piccadilly Valley: St Margaret’s in Summertown, Allyra in...
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Small Acres Cyder

Small Acres Cyder is exactly that—small in scale but rich in intent. Run by the Geoghegan family in Orange, NSW,...
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Castello Di Meleto

Located in Gaiole in Chianti, in the heart of Chianti Classico, this estate traces its connection to wine back to...
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Thunderstone, Porongrup

Thunderstone is a new venture from Tony Davis and Remond Sweeny. This union of two mates, sometimes known under the...
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