e’STELLAR Syrah 2025
- 91
- $45
- Drink by: 2026-2029
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Fruit is from a single 40-hectare vineyard operation that brings together the iconic Dixons Creek Estate and the adjacent former Mandala vineyard, originally planted by the Henkell family in the 1980s. A wine with excellent clarity of blue and black fruits. Plummy mid palate and blueberry freshness. Some caper leaf and Nyon olive, a touch of mulberry sweetness lingers. There is plenty to admire here with a judicious use of oak and holding onto to some fine but structural upright tannins. A wine to drink on its own or with charcoal chicken thighs and chippies. Drink now or within 2-3 years.
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.
