Gilberts Riesling 2025
- 93
- $32
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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Fruit is from the first block of vines planted in 1985. This is filled with familiar apple strudel, white flowers and honeysuckle. Picked lemons, Lily Pily fruit and nashi pear, acidity creeps up carrying tree fruit flavours with it and the wine finishes bone dry with some talc powder texture. This can be framed as classic style of Aussie riesling but flavour is generous and enveloping. It is a good time in glass and would set a tray of seared scallops in the half shell on fire. Drink now or this will cellar well over the next 8-12 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.
