Streicker Ironstone Block Chenin Blanc 2023
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- $35
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Fruit is from the Ironstone Vineyard in Wilyabrup, planted in 1986 and goes into old French oak barriques for fermentation aged on lees with gentle stirring for 7 months. This is like the pleasure of late afternoon sunshine on the back of your neck. The wine opens with lemon verbena, sunflowers and bee pollen. Some kiwi and cut star fruit flesh, a long juicy line of green apple acidity is quickly countered by a creamy almond meal base. You are left with echoes of lemons and limes and acidity that laps at the edges of your palate. Oak has kept the intensity of natural acidity at bay and makes for a moreish and tangibly thirst quenching wine. Thank goodness the folk at Clairault Streicker have seen the potential of Chenin Blanc and maintained these old vines. A wine for fried school prawns and battered flathead strips.
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.
