Yelland & Papps Old Vine Grenache 2024
- 93
- $49
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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From a vineyard planted in 1956 in Vine Vale. Some heady black fruit here, punctured with pops of pomegranate pulp. Damson plum, concord grape skin and rosemary stem. The whole bunch shows up in the brittle thistle and angular winter greens that compliments the string of fine tannins, building upon the fruit. A thinker’s Grenache and built for the long haul as well as on release. If you are opening this today go for blackened peppers, chorizo and green olive pasta. Or pop it aside for another 3-5 years further.
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.
