Welland Wines Old Hands Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 93
- $70
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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Showcasing older vine material, lower yields and longer oak maturation here it’s around 40% new French oak for 18 months. Some intriguing blue fruit like Elderberries and Damson plums meet purple basil, menthol and wild mint bush. The astute Cabernet tannins rush across the palate and play nicely with the nutmeg, cinnamon and clove spice. It’s succulent and drinking very well now, it will show some more earth and brown spice elements with another 5-8 years cellaring but it’s in a pretty sweet spot right now. Think lamb pizza with garlic yoghurt mint sauce for dipping the crust.
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.
