Oliver’s Taranga Falanghina 2024
- 95
- $35
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A Campania queen, it’s exciting to see this in the hands of Corrina Wright who has managed to capture a true to form Falanghina with mock orange blooms, peach fuzz and lemon skin. There is crystallized honey, bronze fennel and a gentle ease to the wine’s flow. Its zesty but idles across the palate. A touch of chamomile tea texture on the finish. Bone dry with lingering notes of almond praline and a touch of beeswax oiliness. Falanghina’s ability to maintain acidity and McLaren’s abundant sunshine means this should work very well in the region. An ideal wine on a table with diamond shell clams in ginger butter. And let’s face it once you know how to say it, it’s fun to pronounce.
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.
