Price Drop: Best of Shiraz

If you’ve ever wondered what peak Barossa shiraz tastes like, this is your answer. Straight outta Moppa – the Barossa’s northern star – this single-vineyard stunner is all about power meeting precision. We’re talking serious fruit intensity, fine structure, and enough wow-factor to silence even your most wine-snobby mate. It’s a deep, brooding magenta in the glass (you can already tell it means business), and the nose is a knockout - layers of black and red fruit, warm baking spice, milk chocolate, and a hint of toasted pastry just to keep things decadent. It’s like walking into a Barossa bakehouse run by rockstars. Take a sip and it’s game on - lush mulberry, morello cherry, and boysenberry roll across the palate, wrapped in silky, superfine tannins that glide rather than grip. The balance is spot on - ripe and plush but with the kind of structure that screams long life ahead. This is a wine built for the long haul, 15+ years if you’ve got the patience. Or if you’re more of an instant gratification type, decant it, pour it, and watch the room go quiet.

This is McLaren Vale shiraz with its collar popped - cool, composed and quietly confident. Lavender, thyme and star anise on the nose, with plum, cocoa and liquorice flowing across a silky palate. Aged in French puncheons, it's all class. We're talking plush plum, dark cocoa and a gentle lick of liquorice. There’s spice from the oak, sure, but it never overshadows the fruit. It's graceful, finely tuned and self-assured - everything we love about McLaren Vale, right there in the glass. This one could age for as long as you patience lasts, but when it's drinking like this right now - you'll have a hard time leaving it alone...

When Stevens Vineyard shiraz earns 95 points, you're dealing with Hunter Valley at its absolute best. The vintage conditions were near perfect. Abundant spring rain provided great soil moisture heading into the dry summer months, while the harvest period was stress-free without adverse conditions. And here's the result - an exceptional Hunter Valley vintage that produced well-balanced, complex wines with remarkable fruit purity. Hand harvested on 20 February at the coldest part of the day, fermentation took place in stainless steel tanks before nine months maturation in a single four-year-old French oak cask, then five more months in puncheons. The winemaking respects both the fruit and the vineyard's reputation. Huon Hooke awarded this 95 points, calling it "outstanding wine" with "intensity, concentration and drive, but not at the expense of elegance." Bright red with purple hues, sweet red fruit aromatics highlighted with cranberry, velvety tannins coating the palate with directional dark cherry and a clean, neat finish.