Pikes Traditionale Riesling 2025
- 92
- $29
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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The resilience of the Clare Valley shows in this 2025, a vintage of extreme dry conditions. Resting on yeast lees for 3 months. Mock orange blossoms, white pear and lemon sherbert. This sings with citrus highlights and tingling acidity, there is a hint of stony pumice that echoes on the finish. A hero of the crisp dry white category with buckets of freshness and zeal and very reliable. Think pan seared flathead and school prawns. Drink now or cellar for another 8-10 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.
