Richard Hamilton Ghost Hill Shiraz 2020
- 92
- $38
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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Prune plums, blackberry and Acai fruits. Soft licorice, five spice and espresso. Cardamon pods, wattle seed and black earth. The wine opens on the palate to reveal a slippery and supple wine with a sweetness to the black berried fruit. Chocolatey prune pudding, vanilla bean and blackcurrant wine gums. There is an effort made to lift the fruit over the significant char of oak which makes for an interplay between the two. A wine you’d think you need to peer into its depths to uncover but it then surprises you with the vigour and energy of a teenager. Drink now and will cellar for 5 years. I’d love to see this wine with chicken liver and port pâte with toast points.
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.
