95 Point Rated - Ken Gargett Wine Pilot 

"The famous Filsell Shiraz from their Barossa Valley vineyard with vines planted over a century ago, is still cracking value and always a delicious drink. There is a richness and generosity immediately apparent with this wine, which shows impeccable extraction. The colour is inky dark in the centre with a dark purple rim. We have notes of plums, black fruits, soy, mulberries, coffee grinds, cassis and chocolate, though some red fruits, raspberries and cherries, drift in and out. A supple texture here and juicy acidity, this is finely crafted with the oak deftly handled, giving the wine a flick of a vanillin note. Firm tannins sit comfortably towards the end of a very long finish. This will easily handle a decade, even two, in the cellar, and likely continue to improve over that time."

95 Point Rated - Tony Love Wine Pilot 

"Welcoming from the outset, with a faintly smoky, charry sense to the nose, a suggestion of crumbled earth and forest floor as an understorey. Then comes the fruit – a fresh crush of purple plum, vibrant flavours, a reverb of that initial blacksmithy char, and an intricate weave of fine yet sticky tannins with a lip-smacking finish. Its depth with a confident vitality gives this a special sensibility and a formidable future."

93 Point Rated - Dave Brookes Halliday Wine Companion 

"Deep crimson. Ripe blackberry, damson plum and black cherry aromas with hints of baking spices, roasting meats, Old Gold chocolate, panforte, olive tapenade, oak spice, dried tobacco and earth. Full bodied, with a swell of ripe black fruits daubed with wood spice and earthy tones, with fine, silty tannins, a light meaty facet and plenty of sustain on the finish."

92 Point Rated - Huon Hooke The Real Review

"Saturated purple-red colour; it smells of blackberry—and tannin. A big, brawny wine with lashings of mouth-coating tannins and bold albeit fairly straightforward flavour. A lasting, chewy grip on the finish. A solid shiraz that would take some ageing well."

94 Point Rated - David Sly Decanter 

"What was once a wine defined by specific location is now a regional melange, though its intention to be a harmonious crowd pleaser remains. The object here is to present power in tightly concentrated black plum and blackberry, flanked by crunchy redcurrant and a lick of raspberry, but also to exhibit restraint in the way that its palate profile remains contained within a slender channel. Sweet and generous on opening, the plush fruit yields to the yoke of manicured tannins and carefully measured oak. A familiar and reliable model."

95 Point Rated - Great Australian Shiraz Challenge 2025

95 Point Rated - Barossa Wine Show 2025

Gold Medal

Barossa Wine Show 2025
Great Australian Shiraz Challenge 2025 

Silver Medal 

Dave Brookes Halliday Wine Companion 2026