Mount Pleasant Mountain A Medium Bodied Dry Red 2023
- 97
- $100
- Drink by: 2025-2035+
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Fruit is sourced from the 1965 vines planted at Rosehill. Matured in less than 20% new puncheons for 9 months before blending. A stroll through a botanical garden could be likened to this floral, aromatic showstopper of a wine. Hibiscus, tea rose and creeping ivy meets raspberry leaf tea, redcurrants and wild fig. Lemon thyme, persimmon and blood plums. Acidity centres the plot of this wine, circling back to the moreishness and succulent palate. Tannins are powdery and even. Some black cherry pit gives a rounded depth to the middle palate, there is so much going on with this wine. It’s a bottle for opening and drinking over many hours, uncovering truths as you go. Drink with good conversation, a charcuterie board and warm socks on. Beautiful. Drink now or will age glacially if cellared well for another decade and more.
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.
