Description / Reviews
"This collection of five Shiraz cuvées from the 2024 Vintage have all been afforded the same “growing up” nurturing regimen or élevage. Over 542 days and nights voyaging through malolactic fermentation, melding with the lively lees, slowly reacting with the tiny ingress of oxygen to mellow and evolve in oak barrels.
"The 2024 'The Standish' Shiraz is typically powerful, savory, closed and spiced here. The nose leads with sweet paprika dolce, brick dust, rose petal, black cherry and licorice. Like all the 2024 Shirazes tasted today, the palate here is silky and structural. In fact, tasting these wines side by side, The Relic is more tannic, but this is firmer, in its way. This is ever the wine in the lineup that shows a clear sense of place. It tastes like the power and the shape that the Barossa effortlessly grows from the ground up. It is impressive and impactful. Made with fruit from the Laycock family vineyard, with 50% whole bunches in the ferment, up from 30% last vintage. As usual, the Standish wines harness whole bunches as a tool for texture, structure and complexity but are rarely consumed by it." - 98 Points, Erin Larkin, Robert Parker Wine Advocate
