Eldridge Chardonnay 2024
- 95
- $75
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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The site in Redhill sits at 225m in elevation. Steve Flamsteed and Grace Jiranek matured the wine in a mix of puncheons and barriques for 10 months 25% was new with full malolactic fermentation taking place. White pear, nashi and pomelo citrus segments. A peach pit nuttiness with white cherries too. There is an electric crackle to the acidity with a powdery talc like texture that spreads across the palate length ways. This has only begun to hit its straps with its snappy yet fleshy palate built for the long years to come. Equally drinking well now with labne, fava beans and fresh garden herbs. A wine that has the drive and sparkle now and will age slowly over the next 8-10 years. This is the kind of wine you’d find it hard not to drink immediately but it will reward.
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.
