Gapsted Estate Saperavi 2022

The inky flesh of Saperavi is always a good wine to close your eyes and experience tasting it blind, for its pigment does not always abide its flavour profile. In this case you’ll find mulberries and Davidson plums, lilac tinged blueberries and butterfly pea powder. Ancho chillis and clouds of carob. The palate is lively, acidity perky and lifting the wine into a medium bodied nature. Tannins are very fine and lick the front of the palate. This would look sensational with sweet blood pudding smeared on sourdough. Drink now and rejoice in this little Georgian beauty, grown in the cool reaches of the Alpine Valley.

Shanteh Wale

Contributor at Wine Companion

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.

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