Clairault MR Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot 2022
- 91
- $26
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Predominantly Cabernet Sauvignon with Merlot and a twitch of Cabernet Franc. This is potent with dark cherries and Davidson plum jam. Smoked cherry and some fresh gravel and tar. Peppy leaf and the bracken of shrub and dried brown earth. Some raspberries poke their ruby head up on the palate and tannins sweep in with conviction. Some leather and tobacco pouch, oak flavours linger with cinnamon and sweet nutmeg. This will continue to give with time in the cellar or drink now with charred lamb chops.
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.
