Mount Pleasant Single Vineyard Lovedale Semillon 2025
- 96
- $75
- Drink by: 2026-2066+
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This is like falling into a fairy bed of apple blossoms, so delicate is its fragrant perfume. Lime pith, pomelo, and lemon sherbet lead the way. It is achingly fresh, yet even in its youth you can already glimpse the trajectory of this wine’s future. There is power here — a sense of tensile, quivering energy — with lemon and citron notes that unfurl slowly in the glass. Lovedale, with its history, is something precious indeed, and you can feel the fruit has been handled as such.This wine is dainty yet possesses an elemental force, one that, given time in bottle, releases real depth and wisdom. It is a wine to revisit in 5, 10, 20, even 30 years to fully understand what this site can achieve. At around $75, it feels extraordinary that you can take home a piece of Australian wine history. If you choose to drink it now, it is best paired with Sydney rock oysters and a positive outlook toward a long and promising future. Drink one bottle now and cellar 6 or 12 for tasting over the next 40 plus years.
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.
