Shiraz

Yarra Yering Carrodus Shiraz 2021

Region: VIC- Yarra Valley

  "Perfumed with blue and black plum fruits with a hint of cured meat. The palate has beautiful density of fruit, liquorice and a slate-graphite minerality. A wonderful season with plenty of hang time for fruit to gain flavour density but retain an...

Henschke Mount Edelstone 2019

Region: SA- Eden Valley
Vegan-friendly Organic Biodynamic Sustainably-made

  "Deep, dark dense red-black-purple colours in the glass, the bouquet evokes dried herbs, hot days under a eucalypt forest canopy, complete with underbrush. Very full-bodied, solidly structured and profoundly flavoured, with masses of...

Grant Burge Meshach Shiraz 2019

Region: SA- Barossa Valley
Sustainably-made

Clarendon Hills Astralis Shiraz 2020

Region: SA- Clarendon

  "It's hard to know what more one could ask from this wine. The fruit in the 2020 Astralis Syrah shows rippling prowess—albeit a little frisky at this early stage in its life—polish and intensity that reverberates in the mouth. It has...

Best's Thomson Family Shiraz 2019

Region: VIC- Great Western

  "Come from the original 1868 plantings, which is quite something. Black and blue fruit, hazelnut, seaweed, a little nougat and spice. It’s blue fruited, quite dense and firm, but also a little salty, with a fine chew to tannin, savoury...

Jean Luc Jamet Cote-Rotie Les Terraces 2019

Region: France- Rhone Valley Northern

    "The star of the show is the 2019 Côte Rôtie Terrasses, which can thought of as a hypothetical mix of the 2017 and 2018, with perhaps a nod to the 2017. Both red and black fruits, peppery herbs, dried flowers, graphite, and a...

Greenock Creek Roennfeldt Road Shiraz 2018

Region: SA- Barossa Valley
Vegan-friendly

  "Greenock Creek's Shiraz Roennfeldt Road lives up to its reputation in 2018 and delivers a rich experience. While immense in concentration, it combines with youthful vibrancy, making for a killer package. It opens with a dark heart of chocolate,...

Mount Pleasant Maurice O'Shea Shiraz 2019

Region: NSW- Hunter Valley

  "Amazingly Intense red and black fruits combine with spice to create a beautiful and complex aroma. Powerful fruits come to the fore, with perfect acid and tannin balance providing an exhilarating intensity and length.   The...

Wild Duck Creek Reserve Shiraz 2020 1500mL-Magnum

Region: VIC- Heathcote
Sustainably-made

  "Whoa. The intensity, the depth! The smoothness. The impossible balance. It’s there. Dark cherry, ripe plum, pan forte, ground walnut and mahogany wood in spades. It’s so seamless and lush. The tannins are all ironstone and ferrous,...

Grant Burge Meshach Shiraz 2018

Region: SA- Barossa Valley
Sustainably-made

  "Big and rich, bold and fluid, dark fruited, lavished with cola, woody spice, vanilla, coconut and pencil shavings, all of which seem well meshed into the flow of opulent, stewed and dark fruit juiciness. A heady, potent red wine with power and...

Torbreck Run Rig Shiraz 2019

Region: SA- Barossa Valley
Vegan-friendly

  "Complex and lifted aromatics of dense black fruits such as blackberries, satsuma plum and black cherry cassis and mulberry complimented with dark chocolate, cacao bean vanilla pod tar and star anise and Turkish delight. The opulent full-bodied...

Best's Thomson Family Shiraz 2017 1500mL-Magnum (Minor Damaged Label)

Region: VIC- Great Western

  "Come from the original 1868 plantings, which is quite something. Black and blue fruit, hazelnut, seaweed, a little nougat and spice. It’s blue fruited, quite dense and firm, but also a little salty, with a fine chew to tannin, savoury and...

Greenock Creek Roennfeldt Road Shiraz 2016

Region: SA- Barossa Valley
Vegan-friendly

  "The style of wine synonymous with Greenock Creek is dense, plush, brooding, concentrated and powerful. This 2016 Shiraz Roennfeldt Road road adds "multidimensional" and "sybaritic" to that list. This is an insane wine—it is stylistically...

Penfolds RWT 2018

Region: SA-(Other)

  "Barossa Valley shiraz. French oak. 64% of the oak is new though all of it is a year old at most. This is also titled Bin 798. I’d imagine that this is French oak as coopered in Australia, rather than the absolute real deal, though...

Best's Thomson Family Shiraz 2017

Region: VIC- Great Western

    "Youthful and bright, the bouquet clean and fresh and loaded with dark-cherry and blackberry aromas, the palate full-bodied, round and soft-textured. The tannins are ample but very fine and seamless, belying its obvious long-term ageing...

Kaesler Old Bastard Shiraz 2015

Region: SA- Barossa Valley
Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

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Clarendon Hills Astralis Shiraz 2017

Region: SA- McLaren Vale

  "The 2017 Astralis Syrah is a very fine wine. It is not a big wine. Perhaps its reputation for being a big, extracted wine is a misnomer these days. It has intention and drive and clarity and length—and the length of flavor is so long that...

Henschke Mount Edelstone 2016

Region: SA- Eden Valley
Vegan-friendly Organic Biodynamic Sustainably-made

  "The vineyard was planted in 1912, hand-picked, matured in 80% French and 20% American hogsheads (19% new). The vintage was challenging, but this shiraz shows no sign of that. It is full-bodied, very complex and very long, the tannins expertly...

Penfolds RWT 2017

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

  "This walks in and takes over the joint. Sweetness, smokiness, creaminess, long chains of tannin, a general swagger. It’s a prime wine, alpha, smooth as silk but hulked up too. All its doubts are ahead of it; for now, it has none. It has to...

Clarendon Hills Astralis Shiraz 2016

Region: SA- Clarendon

  "Appetizing scents of roasted meat and cinnamon toast meet red raspberries and black cherries on the nose, while the medium to full-bodied palate is densely concentrated and richly textured but closed, locked up by firm, dusty tannins that bar...