Eastern Peake Intrinsic Pinot Noir 2022
- 97
- $75
- Drink by: 2024-2039
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Vine material ranges from 30-40 years. All MV6 Clone, grown on volcanic loam soils. 100% destemmed fruit to concrete fermenters, basket pressed to French barriques. I won’t lie in saying that I swore out loud on first impressions of this wine. A bouquet of raspberries, rooibos tea, goji and rosehip. Dried gum leaf, bush tomato and paprika. There is Morello cherries, Davidson plum and carob. Plum pit on the middle palate that is swept up in the carrying acidity. Tannins are svelte like and yet still chewy. This is a stonkingly good wine. Amaretto sour, cherry bitters on the finish. It gives and gives! Drink now and put down 12 bottles if you can for another 8-15 years, watch it change and alter form, as no doubt, you will too.
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.
