Best's Thomson Family Shiraz

"The particularly rare Best's Thomson Family Shiraz is one of Victoria's greatest wines and represents a window to Australia's winemaking past. Like Henschke Hill of Grace and Penfolds Block 42 in the Barossa Valley, the Best's Concongella Vineyard 1860s plantings at Great Western belong to Australia's rich heritage of ancient genetic and pre-phylloxera vineyards. The fifteen rows of dry grown Shiraz vines, well over 140 years old, are the source material for the Thomson Family. It is a rich, generous wine with brilliant blackberry meaty fruit underpinned by cedar oak and gravelly tannins. The wine is open-fermented in small ‘tubs’ and then matured in a 50/50 combination of new and old American oak for approximately 24 months. "Andrew Caillard MW

  • [SOLD-OUT] Best's Thomson Family Shiraz 2015

    [SOLD-OUT] Best's Thomson Family Shiraz 2015

    Region: VIC- Great Western

    "Made only in exceptional years, we've been blessed to see another Thomson Family Shiraz so soon after last year's 99-Point effort. This release comes from the moderate and calm 2015 vintage and although the quality was high, yields were down, meaning...

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    $198.00
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  • Best's Thomson Family Shiraz 2010

    [SOLD-OUT] Best's Thomson Family Shiraz 2010

    Region: VIC- Great Western

    Campbell Mattinson 96 points!"This is a tremendous wine. Just terrific. The tannin feels so mature, so long, so sinewy. The fruit flavours are ripe and blueberried " and intense " but there is no heaviness here. Musky, vanillin oak plays an assertive...

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    $150.00
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  • Best's Thomson Family Shiraz 2008

    [SOLD-OUT] Best's Thomson Family Shiraz 2008

    Region: VIC- Great Western

    Campbell Mattinson 94 points! "It's grown on vines planted in 1867 " another way of saying that it's both a) rare and b) unable to replicated. 2008 was a warm year but a very good one in the Grampians. It has that beautiful even-tempered ripeness so...

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    $150.00
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  • [SOLD-OUT] Best's Thomson Family Shiraz 2006

    [SOLD-OUT] Best's Thomson Family Shiraz 2006

    Region: VIC- Great Western

    Jeremy Oliver 95 points!"An exemplary Great Western shiraz whose pristine expression of small black and red berry fruits, tightly knit cedar/chocolate oak and dusty, spicy and peppery undertones simply ooze finesse and charm. More savoury and artful than...

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    $165.00
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  • [SOLD-OUT] Best's Thomson Family Shiraz 2004

    [SOLD-OUT] Best's Thomson Family Shiraz 2004

    Region: VIC- Great Western

    - Jeremy Oliver 95 points!'A rich, powerful and assertive shiraz whose fruit profile just manages to stay within the bounds of genuine ripeness. Deep, dark and spicy, its meaty, leathery and slightly briary aromas of intense red and black berry fruits...

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    $150.00
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  • Best's Thomson Family Shiraz 1996

    [SOLD-OUT] Best's Thomson Family Shiraz 1996

    Region: VIC- Great Western

    Jeremy Oliver 97 points!'Opulent, heady and wild close to the perfect Australian shiraz. For sheer intensity and purity of stunningly ripe, spicy sour-edged and vibrant dark shiraz fruit you need look no further. Smoky fine-grained oak is both pronounced...

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    $145.00
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