Riversdale Estate Blanc de Blancs 2017
- 91
- $48
- Drink by: 2023-2024
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Made in the traditional method, the wine opens with baked apple pie, lemon creamsicle and grapefruit segments. Showing it’s extended lees aging in its shortbread biscuit, pastry tart shell and roasted almond aromas. There is bee pollen and chamomile on the finish with a slight honeysuckle sweetness of dosage on the final note. Drink now and serve with a cheesy cob loaf and be the star of the party. Everyone, I repeat, everyone loves a cob loaf.
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.
