Schild Estate Three Springs Barossa Valley Shiraz 2021

97 Point Rated - Sam Kim Wine Orbit 

"Super rich and lavish, the wine shows dark and purple fruit intensity, clove, star anise, cedar and chocolate tart characters on the nose, followed by a powerfully concentrated palate offering velvety texture backed by layers of silky tannins. Opulent and delectably expressed. At its best: now to 2038."

96 Point Rated - James Halliday Wine Companion

"Super deep crimson in the glass with opulent aromas of blackberry, black cherry and boysenberry fruits cut with hints of clove, cinnamon, blackstrap licorice, blackforest cake, dark chocolate bullets, cedar, vanilla bean, olive tapenade and earth. Full bodied and lush with a curtain of powdery tannin and a beautiful créme-de-cassis-like flow to the fruit. There's lots of latent power and fruit depth on display here but nothing feels heavy or overdone. Drink to: 2048"

96 Point Rated - Ray Jordan Wine Pilot

"Gosh, this is a good wine. You know that from the first aromas of perfumed dark fruits with a light lifted scented African violet and rose petal. On the palate, the plush plummy fruit characters come together with spice and dark chocolate rolling effortlessly off the palate as it gathers momentum to a long finish. Classy wine here."

96 Point Rated - Ken Gargett Wine Pilot 

"A superb example of what a stellar vintage 2021 is. Under diam. The colour here is maroon/purple. Everything about this wine just screams big, bold, beautiful and Barossan. The noise is awash in flavours such as chocolate, plums, mocha, licorice and a hint of peppermint. Seductive in the extreme with that typical supple texture, there is juicy acidity and silky tannins. A full flavoured style exhibiting great length. Love it. A fifteen year proposition."

95 Point Rated - Sean Mitchell Grape Observer 

"This is an outstanding shiraz from Schild Estate in the Barossa Valley. The vineyard for this wine is located in Rowland Flat, south of Tanunda. Labelled as the “Three Springs”, the wine is a rich and generous shiraz in the traditional Barossa style. The 2021 vintage has brooding aromas of dark plums and mulberries, with some dried herbs tucked underneath. The palate is full bodied, rich, deep and intense. Dark fruit and cedar characters fortify its generous length on the finish. You can drink this wine now. Nonetheless it should improve for another decade and have a drinking window into the 2040s."

95 Point Rated - Mike Bennie WBM

"A little extra bottle age and we have a wine settling into some faint secondary characters, toastiness, dried fruits, choc-biscut and prune. Around this, plush, lush, ripe plum, same raspberry jame notes and a good dose of sweet, woody spice. It flows well and feels pillowy and sumptuous to taste. It has a groove on."

Viking Odins Honour Barossa Valley Shiraz 2019

97 Point Rated - Winestate Magazine

95 Point Rated - Australian Wine Showcase Magazine

"Great combination of fruit cake and leathery aromas. It has lovely, rich, and complex palate, with a delicious seamless integration of black fruit and oak flavours. Excellent length."

94 Point Rated - Sam Kim Wine Orbit

"It's richly expressed on the nose, showing dark plum, spiced cherry, star anise, fine leather and cedar characters. It's equally attractive in the mouth, delivering excellent weight and plump mouthfeel. Wonderfully structured by silky texture and layers of grainy tannins, making it sturdy and robust with a persistent finish. At its best: now to 2032. $120.00."

Peter Lehmann Radical Barossa Shiraz 2022

95 Point Rated Barossa Wine Show 2024

Bayliss Road Single Vineyard McLaren Vale Shiraz 2023

95 Point Rated - Australian Wine Showcase Magazine

94 Point Rated & 5 Stars - Sam Kim Wine Orbit

"It's beautifully lifted on the nose, showing dark fruit intensity, tar, cured meat, warm spice, and elegant oak characters. The palate delivers succulent fruit flavours with plump mouthfeel and silky texture. Tannins are fine-grained and beautifully integrated, making the wine sturdy and lingering with complex flavours. At its best: 2027 to 2038. $85.00."

Magarey Lane Coonawarra Shiraz 2022 

95 Point Rated - Sam Kim Wine Orbit 

"Wonderfully ripe and enticing, the wine shows blackberry, cake spice, cedar, game and dark chocolate aromas on the nose, leading to a concentrated palate displaying plump mouthfeel backed by layers of silky tannins, finishing long and opulent. At its best: now to 2040"

94 Point Rated - Wine Showcase Magazine 

93 Point Rated - Ken Gargett Winepilot 

"From a single vineyard in Coonawarra, and a top vintage, the colour here is a near black hue. It is a ripe and chocolatey style with notes of black olives, cloves, blackberries, plums and of course, chocolate. There is good focus throughout, through to fine, sleek tannins. Good balance and terrific persistence. This is delicious drinking now and surely at least over the next six to eight years."

Mount Langi Ghiran Cliff Edge Shiraz 2021

94 Point Rated - Campbell Mattinson Halliday Wine Companion
"It's spicy and well fruited but mostly it's an exercise in putting all the various components exactly where they should be. Everything here feels exact, and exacting. Red cherried fruit, black pepper notes, integrated cedar oak and drifts of assorted florals, all of which hone to a long, peppery finish. It's mid-weight at most and it's all it needs to be. This is the kind of wine that gives elegance its good name."

94 Point Rated - Ray Jordan Wine Pilot
"Beautiful, perfumed aromas greet from the start, cherry and dark plum with a spicy raspberry nuance. The palate is medium bodied and elegantly presented with those cherries and blackberry flavours emerging with a little sprinkle of pepper and dried herbs. The oak is well-weighted with the fine chalky tannins in support."

93 Point Rated - Gary Walsh The Wine Front
"Quite the dramatic name, is Cliff Edge. Could also be the name of an Australian private eye, and I’m something of a huge fan of the Cliff Hardy novels by Peter Corris. Anyway, that aside, average age of vines is now 25 years, and it gets 30% new French oak.Black cherry, raspberry, five spice, a little cedar oak. It’s medium to full-bodied, with plenty of cherry and forest berry fruit flavour, a fine dusty/peppery feel to tannin, quite fresh, with maybe something a little more savoury in the aftertaste, like black olive. The length is good also. It’s a good Cliff Edge, and also a rock solid expression of regional Shiraz."

92 Point Rated - Erin Larkin Robert Parker Wine Advocate

"The 2021 Shiraz Cliff Edge is rocky and purple on the nose with crushed granite, blackberry, white pepper and raspberry compote. Not hugely complex, but it is hugely satisfying. This is a concentrated, cool-climate Shiraz. It's a great (super) value at around $30 AUD. 14.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap."

Crown & Anchor McLaren Vale Shiraz 2023

95 Point Rated - Australian Wine Showcase Magazine
"The nose is distinctive, fragrant, and spicy. The palate is underscored by sweet, luscious dark fruits, oak, chocolate, and spice. There is excellent overall balance and a lovely, firm texture."

94 Point Rated & 5 Star Rated - Sam Kim Wine Orbit|
“It's richly fruited and opulent, showing dark fruit intensity, dried herb, fine leather and toasty oak characters on the nose. The palate is wonderfully generous with an abundance of ripe fruit flavours with spicy/savoury nuances. It's mouthfilling and delectable with a persistent, gutsy finish. At its best: now to 2037. $90.00.”

O'Keefe Trail Grand Reserve Heathcote Shiraz 2015

97 Point Rated - Australian Wine Showcase Magazine

94 Point Rated & 5 Stars - Sam Kim Wine Orbit

"Richly fruited and inviting, the wine shows dark fruit intensity, leather, smoked game, cocoa and toasty oak characters on the nose. The succulent palate delivers excellent weight and plump mouthfeel, splendidly supported by silky texture and beautifully melded tannins, offering terrific drinking. At its best: now to 2030. $175.00. Dec 2024."

O'Keefe Trail Grand Reserve Heathcote Shiraz 2015

97 Point Rated - Australian Wine Showcase Magazine

94 Point Rated & 5 Stars - Sam Kim Wine Orbit

"Richly fruited and inviting, the wine shows dark fruit intensity, leather, smoked game, cocoa and toasty oak characters on the nose. The succulent palate delivers excellent weight and plump mouthfeel, splendidly supported by silky texture and beautifully melded tannins, offering terrific drinking. At its best: now to 2030. $175.00. Dec 2024."

Kellys Promise Reserve McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017

96 Point Rated & 5 Stars - Sam Kim Wine Orbit

"Immensely complex and enticing, the bouquet shows blackberry, cake spice, bouquet garni and toasty oak characters, leading to a richly expressed palate that's wonderfully weighted and expansive. Tannins are fine and grainy, making the wine sturdy and robust with a long, satisfying finish. At its best: now to 2030. $150.00. Nov 2024."

96 Point Rated - Australian Wine Showcase Magazine

La Bise Adelaide Hills Shiraz 2023

91 Point Rated - Sam Kim Wine Orbit

"Brightly fruited and inviting, the bouquet shows sweet plum, dark cherry, dried herb, and warm spice aromas, followed by a beautifully rounded palate offering silky texture and fine-grained tannins. Harmonious and balanced with a lengthy, flavoursome finish. At its best: now to 2030."

Stonehaven Reserve Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

97 Point Rated - James Halliday Wine Companion 

"Sourced from adjacent rows of 40yo vines using archetypal cabernet vinification. Hand-pruned to control the yield to 5t/ha; cold maceration and pressed directly to oak for 18 months in French hogsheads. This is a seriously good cabernet that has taken full advantage of an excellent vintage courtesy of skilled vinification by winemaker Ben Wurst. Its length is exceptional, as is its structure and slinky tannins, part fruit, part oak."

96 Point Rated & 5 Stars - Sam Kim Wine Orbit 

"This is superbly fruited and complex on the nose, showing crème de cassis, anise, vanillin oak and dark chocolate aromas. The palate offers excellent concentration and plush texture, wonderfully complemented by expansive mouthfeel and finely infused tannins. Long and satisfying with plenty of delicious flavours. At its best: now to 2039."

95 Point Rated - Ken Gargett Wine Pilot

Under diam, this hails from a 40-year-old vineyard in Coonawarra. After an extended maceration, this was pressed directly to French oak hogsheads for 18 months maturation. Inky purple. This is concentrated, plush, focused. The nose offers alluring blackberries, licorice, beef stock, spices, a hint of mint and warm bitumen. Balanced, elegant, intense and very long, with silky tannins. This is one for the long haul. The palate moves to notes of bergamot and mulberries. There is early evidence of the complexity which is surely to come. Drink over the next ten to fifteen years."

95 Point Rated - Wine Showcase Magazine

93 Point Rated - QWine Review

"An excitable start is highlighted by cool mint, blackberries and blackcurrants. Dried sage and thyme step forward with time in the glass. There is no denying the richness and generosity although it is a little linear. Some more bottle should help this flesh out. Drying, puckering cocoa tannins create the urge for more with a deft touch of blueberry sweetness on close.""

91 Point Rated - Australian wine Review

"Dark maroon coloured, with this Liquid Mars Bar oak all over the nose. Indeed, that oak is dominant on oak and palate, like liquid coffee and chocolate. It’s berried, so smooth and plush too, all making for this seamless, and quite powerful Cabernet."

91 Point Rated - Wine Front 

"It’s a clean. solid, well-made wine with raspberry, blackcurrant, cola and cedarwood flavours doing most of the grunt work. There are mint and bay leaf notes here too, giving it a clear varietal definition, though what it mostly tastes of is fresh fruit. Tannin is present but not in command; there’s a softness to this wine, an ease, in a flavoursome context."

Viking Odins Honour Barossa Valley Shiraz 2019

Gold Medal

Australian Wine Showcase Magazine

Peter Lehmann Radical Barossa Shiraz 2022

Gold Medal
Barossa Wine Show 2024

Silver Medal
Royal Melbourne Wine Show 2024

Award Winner
Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2024

Bayliss Road Single Vineyard McLaren Vale Shiraz 2023

Gold Medal

Australian Wine Showcase Magazine

Mount Langi Ghiran Cliff Edge Shiraz 2021

Trophy Winner
Best Wine Of Show Western Victorian Wine Challenge 2022

Bronze
Royal Melbourne Wine Awards 2024

Crown & Anchor McLaren Vale Shiraz 2023

Gold Medal
Australian Wine Showcase Magazine

O'Keefe Trail Grand Reserve Heathcote Shiraz 2015

Gold Medal

Australian Wine Showcase Magazine

Kellys Promise Reserve McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017

Gold Medal

Australian Wine Showcase Magazine

Stonehaven Reserve Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Gold Medal 

Wine Showcase Magazine

Silver Medal 

Cairns Show Wine Awards 2023

Limestone Coast Wine Show 2023

International Cool Climate Wine Show 2023