Mount Pleasant Old Hill Shiraz 2023
- 97
- $175
- Drink by: 2025-2055
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Sourced from the esteemed 1880 plantings and the stimulus for Mount Pleasant and its future. The 2023 Old Hill is worth taking a seat for. Brimming with blackberries, dark Bing cherries and top of the tree, impossibly out of reach, mulberries. This quite literally is the aroma of a childhood day well spent, the total freedom of outdoor Australia. Climbing trees, gorging on backyard mulberries, returning home with scuffed knees dirt between your toes. In situ with black toned fruit is fresh potting soil, wild moss and black cardamom spice. Sinewy tannins are shadowed by lingering long lines of acidity. It’s a fleshy wine with power packed into a tight frame of tailored precision. This will hold your full attention for longer than a blockbuster, a swift decant to get the full HD experience or allow to cellar for an additional 20-30 years. This wine is meant for only the best quality dry aged rib eye your money can afford.
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.
