Ludo Wines Mt Torrens Colluvium Moscato Giallo Verdicchio Viognier Pinot Bianco 2022
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Co-planted Moscato Giallo, Viognier, and Pinot Bianco grapes were hand-harvested and filled into a French hogshead partly destemmed and partly as whole bunches with juice elevage for 8 months. The Verdicchio was direct-pressed, fermented and aged in a stainless tank and then blended, the final wine rested in French barriques for 3 months. A jubilant wine with aromas of white and yellow florals. Gardenia, Honeysuckle and Freesia with a heady mix of persimmon, mango skin and nectarine. What makes this wine a sensation is the spectrum of peachy aromatics from Viognier coupled with the frame of Verdicchio’s oily character and briney minerality. It’s a contrasting wine that offers all manner of edible delights and drinks like a refreshingly dry white wine. Raw peanut, ginger root and white pepper on the finish. Drinking well now but will cellar for up to 4 years and continue to develop in complexity and detail. Serve with Balmain bugs and chilli sambal.
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.
