Tomich Icon Q96 Chardonnay 2022
- 96
- $65
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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A family icon wine made with Bernard clone 96 picked from the Q block within their 27 block vineyard. Elegance personified in this bottle. Immediately there is a Frangipani bouquet and a hint of the kind of face creams and makeup worn by the Duchess of Wales. It smells expensive and dignified. Meyer lemon skin, white peach sorbet, wild jasmine and ginger jam. French oak provides the driving force behind the intensity of fruit with exhilarating acidity and a soft cheese creaminess. It’s dialled back and that is what is capturing my attention. It feels unadulterated and confidently influential. A triumph. Drink with potato blinis, caviar and sour cream.
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.
