***SIMPLY WINES - TOP 5 Favourite Shiraz of 2018. Includes shipping to Melbourne and Sydney Metro***
"You can buy a lot of more expensive wines from this neck of the woods, though I doubt they’d be better. Blackberry, blackcurrant, sage and mint, liquorice and chocolate boxes, and an almost rosy perfume, and yes, it smells very good, but that’s just the appetizer (cue Cartman). Full bodied, almost a juiciness here, but then comes a sweep of ultra-fine tannin, that might best be described as ‘sexual chocolate’.
Oh! those tannins. Lavish mouth-soaking tannin layered through cool Eden Valley Shiraz fruitiness. Black tea, don’t mind if I do. And a finish that’s rippling with tannin, flavour and freshness. It’s obscenely good".
Rated 97+points Winefront
Perfumed with blue fruits, aromatic spices and gorgeously textured, the hall marks of outstanding Eden Valley Shiraz. The fruit is harvested from a 50+ year old vineyard planted from Mt Edelstone cuttings and handled in the most fastidious of ways.
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The company was founded in 1999, after Dan Standish, who was the winemaker at Torbeck Vintners, secured a small parcel of Shiraz vines from his parents' vineyard in Vine Vale, a subregion of Barossa Valley. Today this 8-hectare (19-acre) vineyard, which is planted on white sandy soils over deep clay, contributes grapes for the flagship wine, The Standish.