Vasse Felix Heytesbury 2024
- 97
- $140
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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Wild yeast, fermented in French oak barriques. Matured in French oak barriques with 53% being new oak for 10 months. You’d think 2023 would be a hard act to follow but this is exactly why you buy Heytesbury year in and out. Here in a shockingly early harvest, Bart Molony (chief viticulturist) was on the front foot. Filled with lemon sherbert, talc and pineapple core. There is a floral edge of dandelion and peony too. A pandan creamy character to the new oak which is to be frank seductive as all get up. Lightening cracks of acidity and long echoes of white nectarine. As the vintage whipped all Margs into a frenzy this will get your heart a flutter. Scintillating and ever the expressive and phenomenal wine. Drink now and hold another 6 pack for 5-8 years further. Drink with perfect roast potatoes, eaten in the kitchen with the chef.
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.
