Curtis Gladiator 2022
- 95
- $228
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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Sourced from 80 year old vines and matured in French and American oak for 36 months. A wine that unfurls with whisky tones, some mulberry swirls and the espresso caramel of tiramisu. Blueberries are dotted throughout too. Tannins here play a large role in focusing the wine for longevity, here you’ll be able to pop this aside in the cool of your cellar for at least 10-15 years. This will integrate the new oak further still. For now it is a wine that is sultry with rich fruit and potent with smokey, toasty and chocolate undertones. A decant will help open the wine more swiftly. Think along the lines of prime rib for this one.
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.
