Flametree SRS Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
- 96
- $95
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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Like a well earned bruise this is all the hues of blue, rouge and black tones, but unlike a sore point, this wine is soul restoring. Ribena, kirsch and Davidson plums are met with tapenade, wild thyme and volcanic ash. The palate shows it can still greet you with the kiss of raspberry and cranberry whilst showing you too its savory, granitic side. Some black pepper and poppy seed bitterness, the wine is medium bodied and tannins are supple and feel more skins than oak. The palate leaves you with the cocoa nib and raw dustings of cocoa. This is perky and astute now and will reward with long term cellaring, this is one of my go-to long haul buys. No S.R.S has ever been disappointing with 5-8 or so years in the cellar. Once again, it’s some of the best Margaret River wine you can buy for the price. This will continue to get better as well. Ideal with crispy remnants left on the rib eye bone, the best bit in my opinion.
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.
