

98 POINT RATED WINE PILOT & 97 POINT RATED HUON HOOKE
Vintage: | 2019 |
Source/Region: | Great Western, Grampians |
Grape Variety: | Shiraz |
Cellaring: | Drink now or cellar for long term |
Bottle Top: | Stelvin |
Alcohol Content: | 14.50 |
Standard Drinks: | 8.60 |
Rating: | 98 |
The Seppelt St Peters Shiraz 2019 is a wine of exceptional complexity and finesse, crafted from select parcels of the prestigious Great Western Vineyard. After a careful fermentation process in open fermenters with partial whole bunch and whole berry inclusion, the wine was aged for 14 months in a combination of 3000L vats, 500L puncheons, and 225L French oak barrels, with 30% of the oak being new. The 2019 vintage was characterized by a warm growing season with below-average rainfall and above-average temperatures, resulting in a narrower picking window but ultimately excellent yields and quality.
The wine presents a perfumed nose dominated by primary aromas of ripe blueberries and blackberries, interwoven with gunflint, warming spice, and delicate violets. The medium-bodied palate is tightly wound, with sweet blackberry fruit at its core. Graphite tannins provide a structural backbone, drawing out the wine’s length and drive. These tannins are complemented by savory oak spice and a subtle flintiness, adding to the wine’s complexity. With its powerful profile, this Shiraz exudes a seductive quality, but its underlying finesse and balance make it suitable for aging, where it promises to evolve beautifully over time.
Receiving outstanding accolades, including 98 points from Ray Jordan of The Wine Pilot and 97 points from Huon Hooke of The Real Review, this wine has earned its place among the finest examples of Australian Shiraz. The Seppelt St Peters Shiraz 2019 is a wine that combines power with grace, and its aging potential only enhances its appeal.
Pair this exceptional wine with grilled steaks, slow-cooked lamb, or rich beef bourguignon. Its complexity and structure also make it a perfect match for hard cheeses like aged Gouda or a selection of blue cheese.
98 Point Rated - Ray Jordan Wine Pilot
"The structure of this Great Western sourced Shiraz follows previous years, but the fruit shows slightly more opulence and density. The colour is so deep and dark. The nose has a peppery, chalky minerality with spices and perfumed blue fruits. There is awesome power in the palate with a dense and concentrated profile of dark and smoothly plush blackberry fruits, some black olive, dark chocolate and a liberal dusting of spices. A little cordite on the finish and there you have it, another masterpiece from one of the great vineyards."
96+ Point Rated - Andrew Caillard MW
"Medium deep crimson. Beautifully intense and pure black cherry, black berry, mulberry star anise, hint black pepper aromas with underlying savoury notes. An inky deep palate with supple black cherry, blackberry fruits, animated fine chalky tannins, and roasted chestnut, ginger, vanilla oak notes. Finishes gravelly firm with persistent juicy fruits and fresh linear acidity. Still in elemental phase but generous and claret-like with superb richness, density and torque. Should develop very well. A classic central-Victorian Shiraz."
97 Point Rated - Huon Hooke The Real Review
"Very deep, youthful purple/red colour, with an expressive pepper-spice and graphite, earthy, ironstone bouquet. Very complex and multi-faceted in spite of its youth. The wine is very full-bodied, concentrated yet beautifully balanced, with ample fine, supple, yet persuasive tannins that bring an appetising dryness to the middle and end-palate. Richness, concentration, and impossible elegance into the bargain. A great shiraz. (Aged in small and large format French oak)."
95 Point Rated - Jeni Port Halliday Wine Companion
"Fermentation in small-batch open fermenters. Matured 14 months in small- and large-format French oak. Even in its youth, St. Peters brings a sense of poise and elegance. The '19 has an added degree of refinement, oak seems more measured than in the past, the fruit more composed. The vintage rates highly with winemakers in the region. Restrained aromas of earthy spice, plums, blackberries and a hint of bay leaf. Smooth and subtle in the mouth – it's early days – with depth."
93 Point Rated – Mike Bennie The Wine Front
"“Exceptional Vineyard” thunders the label. Indeed! Dark, brooding black berry fruit characters, white pepper dusted liberally, faint eucalyptus, green herb, roast meats. Authority in scent! Huge. Exciting. Sweet berry flavours, a late kick of savoury-meaty character, big presence in the palate, spreads wide, soft, with a web of fine, feathery slightly smoky-flinty tannins. More muscle. A distinct, bolder expression of St Peters here, not in the pedigree of recent releases, but showcasing the year, perhaps."
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