Heirloom Vineyards King’s Garden Shiraz 2021
- 95
- $100
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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In true Elena Brooks fashion, only the non-stop creativity and creation of wine can sate her passion. Here the ripe and bold fruit has been matured in a mix of French and American oak for 18 months. From an excellent vintage the luxuriousness of Barossa unfolds, blackcurrants, inky fig skin and cassis. Sweet Nyon olives, grape marc, sweet sage and thyme bush. There is a snap of acidity and tannins and meltingly plush. The light and dark of attentive fruit and savoury mediterranean herbs makes for a very pleasurable wine. This is just beginning to hit its straps and will continue to tick over those clove, dark cocoa nibs with some more time in the cellar. It’s drinking very well now and has another 5 years ahead of it. This calls for beef cheeks with a glossy beef jus.
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.
