SA Wine Guide 2025

Schubert Estate The Lone Goose Shiraz Viognier 2021 Sweet vanillin oak, big and powerful aromatic, blue fruit, sweet orange. Slippery fruit, nice texture and weight with length and carry. Kies Wines Dedication Shiraz 2021 Deep ruby. Black currant, earthy with reductive notes on nose. Palate is black currant and driven with textured tannins. Lingering fruit filled aftertaste. Gomersal Wines Reserve Shiraz 2021 Crimson. Boiled lollies, raspberry - raspberry licorice. Musk notes. Red lolly and red fruits on palate, but not sweet. Pretty wine. Anvers Syrah 2022 Cherry red, youthful hues. Strawberry/ cherry/ raspberry red fruits with some musk notes. Complex and clean palate. Interesting structural tannins. Ripe/ herbal.. Shut The Gate Wines Forager Shiraz 2022 Good intensity on the nose, sour cherry, strawberry, soft tannin, juicy palate, good length Morgan Simpson Basket Press Shiraz 2020 Lovely freshness. Gentle spice. A little quiet. The palate has pleasing bright acidity and a rich mulberry vein. Plush with excellent flavour. Patrick of Coonawarra P Series by Patrick 2018 Excellent richness and depth. Juicy. The wine shows good balance. The harmony is impressive. Good length. Great flavour Shut The Gate Wines For Hunger Single Site Shiraz 2021 Ruby garnet rim. Bright sour cherry lift, fine tannins with bright acid structure Whistler Wines Atypical Shiraz 2023 Beautiful precise fruit, crystal clear, bright and fresh. From nose to palate, great synergy Scarpantoni Estate Block 3 Shiraz 2023 Leads with bright black and red fruits (full of high-toned freshness and energy). Medium weight, fresh acid kick Kenny Wine Auburn Shiraz 2023 Raspberries and strawberries. The acid is fresh, with crunchy red cranberry fruit. Integrated oak.

Matriarch & Rogue Alice Single Vineyard Syrah 2023 Bright purple fruited, some cherry/kirche lift. Nice length. Atze’s Corner Wines Bachelor Shiraz 2022 Sweet oak, baking spices. Has some good complexity and energy. [Z WINE] BAROSSA VALLEY [JULIUS] Shiraz 2022 Great colour nice purples, clean lifted aroma, great concentration of purple fruit nice shape smooth finish [Z WINE] BAROSSA VALLEY [HEDLEY] Shiraz 2022 Good colour. Ripe concentrated red blue berries aromas, cooling fresh palate with nice weight and supportive oak Eden Hall Stage Door Wine Co Shiraz 2022 Nice density of colour, red hue, lifted concentrate ripe fruit aroma, nice finish and has nice slippery acid . Bruno & George Drainings Shiraz 2022 Very good colour, very ripe lifted high tone fruit, some formic acid and coconut oak, same on palate, very powerful has purity and freshness Erin Eyes Wines Blarney Stone Shiraz 2022 Nice colour, clean purple fruit aromas, beautiful concentration of ripe fruit, nice power and length Hare’s Chase Springer Shiraz 2021 Forrest fruits, blackcurrant and nice loam lift. Great weight and drive, firm tannins and a weave of acid. Hare’s Chase Ironscraper Shiraz 2021 Sarsparella and cola cherry lift. Vibrant and primary. Nice cooli acid and leathered tannin. Finishes a bit warm Tomich Wines Woodside Vineyard Shiraz 2021 Crimson, spicey and plummy - plum sauce/ gamey duck. Cherry aftertaste. Medium bodied. Schubert Estate The Gosling Shiraz 2021 Nice aromatic lift, cookie dough and oak lift. Full fruited, dense and concentrated. Nice acid keeps wine fresh Dead Kings Shiraz 2021 Nice dusted lift, plums and currants, some forrest action. Sweet fruit entry, nice clump of mid palate, text and phenolic work.

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