Tyrrell’s Vat 9 Shiraz 2023
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- $115
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Fruit is sourced from best parcels on the Tyrrell’s Estate Ashmans. Vines are at least 50 years of age. The wine opens with intensity both in pigment and aroma. Bilberries, black cherries and a signature of wild raspberries signed throughout. So, too, are some Kalamata olives, crushed granite and bracken herbs. There is a savoury note of charcoal and Billy tea. A glossy richness but with firm tannins that keep the wine upright and surging forward with juicy licks of fresh acidity. This is beautiful drinking now with anything charred on the bone, lamb ribs, cattleman cut steak but will mature like the ice age, slowly and surely, undressing and revealing its red fruit and subtle spice rack. A very alluring wine, grown and crafted with tenderness and agility.
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.
