Aged wine lovers delight. We’re bringing you all of the joys of a cellared wine, without the pricetag it often comes with. And this is one shiraz that has matured exceptionally well. All the elegance and intrigue you want from a drop that’s seen a whack of bottle age: brittle flowers, dried flowers and fruit, earth, and an appealing ‘dusky’ nuance. But this has freshness and lift to boot, a mark of excellent wine making. The palate is rich and enduring, blackcurrant leaf, tobacco, and cedar wood persist throughout the drinking experience. Such a pleasure to experience it unfold in the glass, and even more of a pleasure to drink. This is steak wine. Good mate wine. Third date wine. We’ve only been able to get our mitts on a small parcel of this south Aussie icon, so stock up.

From the oldest vines on the estate vineyard comes this dark and deep Vale shiraz. Great drainage in the sand-over-clay soil sets the stage for excellent concentration of flavour, presenting as blackberry, cherry, plum and spice. Twenty months in a mix of new and seasoned French oak rounds out the package with fine-grained tannins and a subtle cedary influence on the back palate. This is classic Vale old vine shiraz, inky and smooth, deep and complex.

From the prized southern part of the sun-drenched Barossa, steeped in quality grown shiraz (you know we’ve done the research) It’s right here, where the surrounding views offer the picture-perfect painting; a diversity of colours from the tree leaves to the soils, which in turn give our favourite grape - shiraz - all the lashings of character we as adults have grown to become obsessed with. A blend of hand-selected low-yielding parcels, you’ll find generous flavours of black fruit, olive and pepper spice, backed by silky tannins, yet the wine is intense on the palate, with a great depth and length. Such a complex finish, and a damn fine gem of a shiraz.