Mount Pleasant Mothervine Pinot Noir 2025
- 95
- $65
- Drink by: 2026-2027
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Australia’s oldest planted Pinot Noir vineyard by Mauirce O’Shea himself in 1921. A vivid wine this vintage with maraschino cherries, cranberries and some red apple skin. Once again, the wine tells its climatic and site tale well, with winemaking just guiding what the vineyard is gifting. Total acceptance of old vines, a workhorse clone and an early vintage. You can taste the density of compact fruit, the volcanic laden soils and a teasing lacey texture woven with ripe red fruit. Some rooibos tea and pink peppercorn spice. You won’t taste or see anything like this, anywhere else. That’s reason enough for me to line up and taste it year on year. Drink now with Portuguese spiced chicken.
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.
