Mount Pleasant SV Mothervine Pinot Noir 2024
- 95
- $80
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What can you expect from Australia’s oldest planted (1921) Pinot Noir vineyard, well firstly if you want it, you need to sign up, as it is for members of Mount Pleasant only. From block MP 12, this speaks of place like any other single site in the range. This more than a curio but a wine that shows its more moderately warm growing conditions and ability to show bright red focused fruit, some web like fine tannins and enough zeal to have you drinking a touch too swiftly. Raspberry leaf, satsuma plums and paperbark skin. Its careful handling allows the purity of the MV6 clone to shine bright, with the capturing of tannins the real star for me. How long will this site continue to produce fruit like this, we don’t know, so buy it and take a touch of Aussie history home with you. I’d suggest drinking it with a time and tested recipe like curried sausages for the wine.
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.
