Bleasdale Floodgate Shiraz 2022
- 90
- $15
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Langhorne fruit with 15% whole berry. Matured in 10% new oak for 12 months both hogsheads and barrels. As comforting as a country homemade pie, this is channelling blueberry pie vibes. Vanilla flecked biscuit base with cinnamon and nutmeg. There is black cherries and boysenberries too. A hint of English breakfast tea and cedar. Acidity refreshes and highlights some raspberry notes. Tannins are dusty and the wine drinks very well now. This is a great every day, very flexible Shiraz, which could handle a spicy pepperoni pizza just as well as pork sausages and caramelised onion sambos.
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.
