Shiraz Wines
Shiraz wine is the most iconic of all Aussie varieties – from big and bold Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale Shiraz through to the cooler climate expressions from Hunter Valley, Clare Valley, the Adelaide Hills and beyond… Shiraz red wine remains king in Australia, despite it being incredibly divisive at WDHQ; Adam (Digital Manager) would rather drink tepid hot dog water whereas Phil (Sales Manager) champions it so much so that he has started making his own… All of our offerings below have been thumbsed up by the Tasting Panel and are all the evidence you need to see why this variety has continued to reign supreme. Step away from the hot dog water Adam... step away.
Is Shiraz red wine?
Mostly. The juice itself is clear, so you can make white wine outta Shiraz an ...
- Heirloom Vineyards McLaren Vale Shiraz 2018Special Price $30.00 Regular Price $40.00Low 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 silken black and blue fruits, anise and chocolate all settling nicely into a really satisfying drink. Super intense, chewy and rich but not overblown. Awesome now and should cellar beautifully. Remarkable value for money. Learn More
- JJ Hahn 1890’s Vineyards Barossa Valley Shiraz 2017Special Price $75.00 Regular Price $85.00A magical, medium bodied expression of very old vine Barossa Shiraz. Elegant almost ethereal fruit builds in intensity, revealing as it breathes black fruits, blueberries all enhanced by wonderfully floral aromatics. Complex, elegant, powerful and bloody awesome. Learn More
- Jeanneret Temperance League Shiraz 2022Special Price $22.00 Regular Price $30.00A single vineyard Shiraz, which is big, enriched with vanilla oak oak and spice, plums, blue fruit, black fruit and chocolate. Super easy, lip-smacking drinking. Learn More
- Karl’s Scepter Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022Special Price $30.00 Regular Price $38.00A rich and satisfying, full bodied Barossa Shiraz offering generous and intense dark fruits, chocolate, vanilla, cherries, plum and spice. Cedary oak is evident too. Ask us about mates rates on this one! Learn More
- Karl’s Scepter Shiraz 2022$35.00A step up from the previous vintage, the 22 Scepter Shiraz with bright red fruits, of strawberry and cranberry, with milk chocolate. A lovely mid palate richness leady to a long finish. Learn More
- Karl’s Scepter Yarra Valley Shiraz 2019Special Price $30.00 Regular Price $38.00A lovely, medium bodied, blue fruited and peppery Shiraz from the Yarra Valley. There are red fruits here too, specifically cranberry. The wine is soft and bright with good length. Great with charcuterie or perhaps a prosciutto pizza. Learn More
- Kilikanoon Meymans Shiraz 2020Special Price $40.00 Regular Price $50.00Whilst 2020 was a challenging growing season and yields were very low, fruit quality and concentration were excellent, even exemplary. There is concentrated black and blue fruit here, along with cedar and spice. The acid is fantastic, playing the perfect underscore to the fruit and giving this wine excellent lift and length. Tannins are fine and firm. Superb to drink now and for the next decade. Learn More
- Kilikanoon Revelation Shiraz 2016Special Price $520.00 Regular Price $550.00Just a few barrels were made of this incredible Shiraz made from the best parcels of fruit grown by Kilikanoon in 2016. Complex and refined, this wine offers blackberries, cherry, milk and dark chocolate, incredible quality French oak, effusive acidity and perfectly modulated tannins. It has massive fruit intensity AND will cellar for 20 years plus. Learn More
- Lienert Vineyards 'Sieben Klon' Barossa Shiraz 2020Special Price $40.00 Regular Price $50.00An exceptional wine, even more powerfully fruited than the 2019. Made by former Penfolds St Henri growers, the Lienert brothers. Each of the 7 distinct clones were harvested and fermented separately with the harvest date chosen to best allow each grape to express its best characters. For instance, the EVOS12 (Eden Valley clone) was harvested earlier than the others to allow for a beautiful perfume and liveliness in the final wine. Fermentation is done in tiny open top fermenters which are hand plunged up to 4 times a day. Certain clones are fermented cooler to better express delicate aromatics whilst some are plunged and pumped over heavily to achieve a more structural element. The trick is finding the right balance. Anyways, we love this wine and encourage you to give it a rip. Learn More
- Lone Palm Crossings Shiraz 2021$60.00Wow! Full bodied, deep black and packed black fruits, gunsmoke, graphite and cedar. Immediately appealing though this is, it is absolutely worth decanting and will cellar for 15+ years. The fruit is hand picked, hand plunged and basket pressed before spending 14 months in mostly old French oak. Learn More
- Lone Palm Vineyards 'Selection' Shiraz 2022$250.00Just 166 and a half dozen were produced of this impenetrably black beast. The best fruit is hand selected from the lowest yielding rows of the winery's best vineyard in Maranaga. Some whole bunch and 100% whole berries are fermented slowly in open fermenters before basket pressing into French Oak. Liquorice, star anise and cloves, dark chocolate, blackberries, blueberries, blackcurrants can all be found here. Fruit intensity and length are profound. Length is exceptional. An utterly brilliant wine. Learn More
- Lone Palm Vineyards Hillside Shiraz 2022$120.00An explosive Barossa Shiraz from low yielding, old vineyards in Marananga and Stonewell, planted to the R6 and 1654 clones. There’s old vine fruit from Greenock, the vines so old that the clonal selection is unknown. Matured in a combination of new French and older American oak, this is a stunning Barossa Shiraz offering dense black fruits, blue fruits, blackberries, coffee, graphite, chocolate, minerals, liquorice, spice, blueberries, cedar and firm tannins. Stunning. Learn More