Bay of Fires Chardonnay 2024
- 92
- $48
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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A basket of fuzzy peach, cantaloupe and grapefruit, this crackles with some sparkler flint and the toasting of campfire marshmallows. A generous ray of sunshine is then countered by the cooling of Tassies frigid nights, the wine drinks with ease. Juicy orchard apples, lemon juice and an oatmeal oak spice. Nutmeg and powdered cinnamon sneaks in but it’s lifted and elegant, with a clean grapefruit flesh finish. If you are drinking now go for battered dory and well made tartare sauce but give it 3-5 years and this is cheesy lobster mac and cheese heaven.
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.
