Frankland Estate Isolation Ridge Syrah 2024
- 96
- $65
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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From the famed single vineyard planted in 1988 and certified organic vines. This site manages to enhance and illuminate its features, first by capturing the lilac and olive grove aromas, secondly by reinforcing those wild aromatics with potent fruit power. Here blueberries, hawthorn and plum skin. Savoury notes of fresh bay leaf and sage, tapenade and black peppercorn. Red clay and punchy bright acidity makes it a medium bodied drink with some sandy tannins and long lines of flavour. A wine that could compliment almost any tomato braised dish, think charred capsicum, cherry tomatoes and chorizo smooshed into a baguette. Or cellar further for 5-8 years further. A very impressive wine.
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.
