Handpicked Highbow Hill Chardonnay 2024
- 96
- $100
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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A wine with crystalline purity of Meyer lemon and finger lime droplets. Subtle sparkler flint, pumice stone and creamy sawdust skirting the edges. This envelopes the palate with floral white nectarine flesh, candlewax and talc. A wine that speaks of its sandy loam site, cool growing conditions and also of the faceted angles that Chardonnay can achieve in the Yarra Valley. It is full flavoured but energetic and invigorating, a truly special wine with a very long road ahead of it. If drinking now, go for sweet crab or lobster meat but this will age slowly for another decade or so too.
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.
