Flametree Embers Chardonnay 2024
- 93
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2029
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A tantalising wine from first aroma to last drop in the glass. The back label reads for ‘immediate enjoyment’ and you don’t need to tell me twice. It’s nashi pear, white peach schnapps and apple danish. There is some classy seasoned oak that shows through in beeswax, almond nougat and cumin spice. Plenty of sliced pineapple and a slippery, almost saline finish. It’s crisp, crunchy and snappy with perky acidity and some creamy milky tones on the finish. Excellent value, this sits very comfortably indeed as a wine you’ll try once and buy multiple cases of when you see it again. Drink now and will cellar for another 3-4 years. Perfect with a crumb chicken schnitzel.
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.
