Mount Pleasant Cellar Aged Semillon Lovedale 2021
- 98
- $100
- Drink by: 2026-2056
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Good gracious this is fresh, and an exercise in the Lovedale vineyards enduring youth. The vintage was not a walk in the park but you’d never know it. Finger lime spheres, fennel bulb and lemon yoghurt. Wet stone, cracked wheat and salt spray. There is a slight powdery grip which acts as a funnel for acidity, moreish, salivating and filled with nashi, apple and citrus flavours that go on and on. There are surprises and curves too like the way an oatmeal creaminess reoccurs beyond the crunch and vigor of the lip smacking core. Utterly mesmerising this wine and a vintage triumph. I would say this is in just the right spot for simple pan seared sand whiting, the sweetness of the flesh will sit just right in its journey now, but like always this will age glacially another 20-30 years in the cellar.
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.
