Precious Little Old Vine Mclaren Vale Grenache 2024
- 93
- $32
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Lavender and Bing cherries are swept up with clove and gravelly stone. Blackberry bush meets Acai. Fruit displays its beautiful ripeness on the palate with meltingly juicy berries, some talc like tannins and fresh acidity. This is in a precise drinking window, with all its favourable aspects coming together to provide a supple and charming drink. Yes, with some age it will evolve and begin to reveal some more poppy seed, black pepper spice perhaps but it’s a shame to miss this exact moment, for its sublime right now. You know the answer, right? Buy at least a dozen and decide for yourself. Tannins are well integrated, fruit is on show and its medium bodied. I cannot imagine any red wine drinker that wouldn’t enjoy this. Order BBQ pizza and take the night off cooking!
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.
