Holm Oak Arneis 2025
- 93
- $32
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25% of the wine is transferred to Numblot egg and the rest into seasoned oak barrels. A wine with fleshy golden apples, poached pears and honeysuckle. There is yellow lemon skin and baked cracked sandstone minerals. A touch of meringue and just toasted coconut shows the round curves of oak. The salinity feels more like salted almond milk, creamy but with an edge of brine. There is complexity here but wrapped in a silk sheet of moreish sip-ability. A wine that would work with delicate seafood like clams but also be at home with a cauliflower cheese bake.
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.
