Foreign Friends Savagnin 2025
- 93
- $37
- Drink by: 2026-2031
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An edible wine that invokes peach, fresh apricots and honeysuckle. Some kernel and candlenut ground into a mortar and pestle. There is a wealth of spice too, galangal, ginger and nutmeg. The palate is surprisingly more concentrated than expected and delights with its tropical fruit energy and laser focus acidity. This has so many possibilities on a dining table, from sipping alone, to saffron and seafood paella, roast chook or with slabs of gouda cheese on crackers. A wonderful way to explore Savagnin and the cool reaches of Victoria. Drink now or within 3-5 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.
