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The Official 2025 Royal Adelaide Wine Show Red Dozen
As always, competition for Gold was fierce — and the calibre of wines we’ve tasted for this release has been exceptional. The result? An absolutely stunning Red Dozen.
Every wine here is a Gold Medal winner.
Every wine was a Top Gold — meaning it was in the top few of its class and in contention for a trophy.
Five of the six wines went on to win trophies, for a total of seven trophies overall — a first for us!
Trophies include:
• Most Outstanding Red Wine in Show
• Best Shiraz in Show
• Best South Australian Red Wine of Show
• Best Other Red Blend in Show
• Best Other Red Varietal in Show
• Best Shiraz 2023 & Younger
• Best Shiraz 2022 & Older
Inside you’ll find Grenache, Malbec, Cab Merlot, Montepulciano-Negroamaro-Aglianico blend, and two superb Shiraz. All of them magnificent.
This is the best Royal Adelaide Wine Show Red Dozen we’ve ever assembled.
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Wow! Exceptional purity of fruit here with plum, red berries, thyme and a smidge of eucalypt on the nose. The palate offers these, and whilst initially a little closed, breathes to offer plushness. Expressive plums and red fruits. There is oak, but it is supportive in the best kind of way - encouraging the fruit to be its best whilst never threatening to micromanage. Supremely elegant and, with air, lip smacking delicious.
Medium to full bodied, offering spice, violets and plenty of fruit. Plentiful plum and black cherry here, blackberry, pepper, vanilla and more. A relatively soft Shiraz this, with fruits on full display, minimal oak and fine tannins to finish. Great drinking over the next year or four. A Gold, Top Gold and Trophy winner at the Adelaide Show and also a Gold, Top Gold and Trophy winner at the Queensland Show.
A delightful, Italian inspired, medium bodied, three way blend of Montepulciano, Negroamaro and Aglianico. Superb fruits here, with cherries, plums, dried oregano, florals and cedar all playing a part in what is both a complex, beguiling and seamless red wine. A ripper, thoroughly deserving of its Gold and Top Gold medals at the Royal Adelaide Wine Show.
This is a stunner every year. With 25% of the fruit added to the ferment as whole bunches to give perfume and zest, the remaining fruit is hand plunged and basket pressed into big, old oak where it spends almost a year sitting on its solids, adding texture and class. Has stunning intensity of bright fruit aromas and flavours of cherry and raspberry along with spice, herbs and superfine tannins. A Gold, Top Gold and Trophy Winner at the Adelaide Show.
Pretty much a perfect expression of Malbec here, which loses nothing to its Argentinian competition. Concentrated cherry and cherry pip, raspberry, wood smoke, smoked meats and cassis can all be found here. This is rich, plush and finishes with waxy, mouth-coating tannins. A magical Malbec. Gold, Top Gold and Trophy winner at the Adelaide Show. An additional 2 gold medals and a Top Gold elsewhere.
Exceptional value for what is an extraordinarily high quality Margaret River Cab blend. Medium to full bodied with mulberry, just ripe plum, rose, and violet on the nose. Black olive, damson plum, graphite, bay leaf, smoky woody notes, cedar and tobacco on the palate. Fine but persistent and persuasive tannins to finish and plenty of acid. Decant or cellar for 10+. A Gold, Top Gold and Trophy winner at the Adelaide Show.
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