Expressive,

          spice

balanced.

Medium bodied with vibrant fruit and spice.

Cellar for up to 15 years
Ideal serving temperature: 16 - 18°C
Decant and enjoy with osso bucco
Produced using sustainable practices
Vegan

Tasting notes

Vintage Guide

Reviews

Shiraz in which balance is more important than power.

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2023

Shaw + Smith
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2021

Shaw + Smith
Balhannah Vineyard Shiraz

Notes

Style

Shaw + Smith Shiraz is a medium bodied cool-climate Shiraz, in which balance is more important than power.
A wine with freshness and lift, and some luscious fruit as well. There’s a combination of red and blue fruits, a touch of white pepper, and good grippy tannins framing the midweight palate. From a cool La Niña season, this Shiraz delivers brightness and vibrancy with ripe fruit and structure that makes it very complete and delicious cool climate Shiraz.

Season

The vintage threw up a number of challenges but the weather during the ripening period was extremely kind. February saw perfectly even ripening and resulted in grapes that were small, packed with flavour, and with higher than normal acidity.

Source

From low yielding vines in Balhannah and the central Adelaide Hills.

Vinification

Aged for 10 months in 500 to 600 litre French oak barrels, 20% new, followed by a further 16 months in bottle.

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Reviews

Shaw & Smith Shiraz has such a rich legacy now that I’d probably be more intrigued if it wasn’t great. This 2022 iteration is different, though. It’s an Adelaide Hills Shiraz that speaks in a different, spicier accent – you could call it Syrah, and no one would be upset. Masterful winemaking, too – a shitload of flavour for a 13.5% red. It’s purple-coloured and smells of purple things – violets, blueberry, and peppery blackberry jam. There’s a bit of Syrah pan juices and pepper steak, but again, there is loads of purple fruit on the medium-weight, gently grippy, perfectly ripe palate. Classy, medium weight but not shy, it’s maybe a bit dark and spicy rather than glossy this year, but that just makes it a great wine. I like.

Andrew Graham, OZ Wine Review

A wine you’ll see on almost any city restaurant list because it fits the bill of real cool climate elegance with the stuffing most Aussies require of our beloved Shiraz, all at an accessible price tag. The vintage sees black fig, prune plums and sapote. A sliver of red toffee apple and black pizza olives. There is a sage leaf or two and woody herbs. The palate is streamlined with acidity driving the ship, more red fruit present with cocoa nib, coffee grinds and graphite. A savoury tapenade and spiced meat finish supported by powdery tannins. Drink now and will cellar for another few years. A great wine for almost any char or grilled meats – lamb chops and rosemary focaccia perhaps.

Shanteh Wale, The Wine Pilot

This is delightful. It opens with an expectation: game meat, white pepper, raspberry, tart cherry, some dried herbs and a whiff of truffle. Savouriness and pretty fruit hand in hand. It delivers on the palate, satiny tannins wrap up more of those fruit and savoury elements, game meat and pepper a strong card but beautifully woven through red fruits and sweeter spices. Ribbons of those tannins trail long through the palate; a light dusting of spice lingers. It's spot-on medium weight, too. So much charm.

Mike Bennie, Halliday Wine Companion

Past Vintages

2021

Exceptional year - balanced growing season.

Drink now or cellar until 2036

2020

Season marked by extremes. Low yielding, high quality vintage

Drink now or cellar until 2035

2019

Sporadic heat waves and cool periods in between led to high quality but low yields

Drink now or cellar until 2034

2018

Warm and dry throughout most of the growing season. Beautifully balanced fruit.

Drink now or cellar until 2033

2017

Cool year, later harvested resulted in particularly fragrant wine.

Drink now or cellar until 2032

2016

Early rain provided foundation for a warmer year. Resulted in high fruit density.

Drink now or cellar until 2031

2015

Remarkable vintage. Useful rainfall kept vine balance through a moderate year.

Drink now or cellar until 2030

2014

Challenging year pushed through by February rains and four weeks of sunny mild weather. Exciting results.

Drink now or cellar until 2029

2013

Dry balanced year with cool nights. Lead to great depth and complexity.

Drink now or cellar until 2028

Shaw + Smith Shiraz

2022 / 750ml

Aged Release / 2015 2022 / 375ml 2022 / 1500ml