Showing exceptional colour, this Syrah immediately presents flavours of black and blue berries, cherry and a hint of white pepper. It delivers a beautiful velvety trail with oak detected in the background. This is a quintessential modern Australian shiraz that’s not going to take your head off and it has Trophy winner written all over...
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A massive Shiraz with lashings of oak. It still has plenty of years ahead of it but has softened nicely. We saw vanilla, chocolate, coffee, liquorice and plum along with a little toastiness and cedar. A little oakier than is currently in vogue but nonetheless bursting with fruit, mouth-filling and delicious....
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A massive McLaren Shiraz with lashings of very high quality oak, nuttiness, and cherry/black fruit compote. Liquorice and cloves here too and plenty of relatively firm tannins to finish. Needs a big aged T-bone or a casserole. Will cellar...
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A delicious gold medal winning Barossa Shiraz which is packed with rich and velvety black and blue fruits. There are cherries, blackberries, chocolates and plums on the go here, along with spices and quality oak. Drink now or store it away for another 5 years or...
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This is Pirramimma’s definitive Shiraz, the best they have been able to make in 120 years of winemaking. We saw chocolate, mulberries, spice, coffee, blackberries, plum, cherry, vanilla and more … This is pretty close to as good as Australian Shiraz gets. That said its but a pup now and needs double decanting hours before drinking or another 5 years in the dungeon at...
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Tim Adams Bayes Block Shiraz, back in black from the exceptional 2012 vintage. Absolutely loaded with quality fruit and oak, liquorice, chocolate, blackberries and plenty of other goodies. This is undeniably the best Bayes Shiraz to...
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This is easygoing, medium bodied Clare Valley Shiraz. Blue fruits as you’d expect along with plum and some oak. This is in its sweet spot right now – and should drink well for the next 4 or 5...
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Tim Adams 2012 Shiraz offers up dark and minty milk chocolate, plums, liquorice and spice. There’s lovely play between the sweetness of fruit, savoury spices, toasty oak and plentiful silky tannins. Drink now or cellar for another 5-8...
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This is a beautifully balanced medium bodied Shiraz. Lifted fruits and fruit perfume lead to sour cherries and blue fruits, refined cool climate spice and a fine but grippy tannin finish. So easy to drink right now and will cellar very well...
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A tightly coiled beast which needs an hour or so to open up. Lots of bright and powerful blue fruits and a line of white pepper spicing the middle of the palate. Great subtle toasty oak and tannin grip to finish. Decant if drinking now and cellar for up to 20 years if you’ve got more willpower than...
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This is a complex beast, offering an array of fruits and flavours. We see liquorice, black plum, blackberries and black pepper. This has excellent intensity of fruit and a modest amount of cedary...
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We reckon this is pretty flash, with gorgeously cedary French oak framing a palate awash with sticky black and blue fruits, Chrissie pudding spices and dark chocolate. Acid and fine tannins give it a backbone… like Roger Ramjet on a mission…...
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Very alluring and perfumed and opened up more over 2- 3 hours, the palate is rich and full bodied rounded out with powdery tannins. Like a Labrador after doggy school, worldly and with unparalleled ability to entertain… Brilliant....
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Low yields, very careful fruit selection, hands on winemaking with whole bunches and open fermentation and the use of high quality French and Bulgarian oak have conspired again to produce a stunningly intense McLaren Vale Shiraz. It offers Blackberries and cedary oak, great length and deeply intense black and blue fruits all settling nicely into a really satisfying drink. Super intense, chewy and...
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It’s a massive call but this vintage of Lion Point is unequivocally better than the 2013 we have just sold out of. Why, because the 13 vintage was awarded the Trophy for ‘Best Single Varietal Red at Singapore’s Tower Club Wine Awards. Much like the 13 vintage, the 14 offers blackberries, dark chocolate and spice along with a stack of fine grained tannins. Where it improves on the 13 is in...
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A cracking drop this with lots of florals, plums and pepper on the nose. There’s dense black fruits on the palate along with spice. The finish here is long and strong. Pair this up with a hearty beef dish....
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This is a cracking everyday drink offering red and blue fruits in a medium bodied setting. Plenty of depth of flavour here in what is nominally a $12 wine but drinks much...
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This Shiraz from Thorn Clarke has gathered plenty of attention from wine scribes with Matthew Jukes dubbing it his “Entry Level Shiraz of the Year” and we are inclined to agree! Juicy berry on the nose and plum and spicy oak on the palate. You might notice a bit of sediment in the bottom of the bottle... no need to worry, this is a perfectly normal and harmless sediment formed by tartaric...
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They do it the hard way at Wykari, dry growing the vines and hand pruning. The result is nothing short of stellar. Chock full of youthful vigour, this is dark and spicy shiraz from the Clare Valley. There’s spice, juicy vibrancy, black cherries and fine tannins. Excellent now and over the next few years....
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We have long been fans of Claymore. The Dark Side of the Moon is their best and most underpriced wine. It offers sublime dark fruits, bursts with spice and concentration and finishes with plenty of fine tannins. The 15 vintage is the best vintage we have seen yet. With the alcohol dialed down below 15%, the fruit is just that bit more refined and expressive without sacrificing the trademark...
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Big and bold McLaren Shiraz, with oodles of blackcurrant syrupiness, oak and fine tannins. Has more and better quality oak than previous releases, an each way bet for drinking now or chucking away for another 5-10 years....
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