2021 Torbreck 'The Steading' GSM Barossa Valley

2021 Torbreck 'The Struie' Shiraz, Barossa Valley

Reports of the demise of the great Australian Shiraz are premature.  The best are still among the best wines in the world and this McLaren Vale classic costs the same now as it did 20 years ago!  I first visited Colin Kay at Kay Brothers back...

Let’s finish our tour of the Southern Hemisphere in South Australia.  Kilikanoon is located in the town of Penwortham, situated in the rolling hills of the Clare Valley, just a two-hour drive north through the much warmer Barossa Valley from...

2018 d'Arenberg Custodian Grenache, McLaren Vale 

Prima Note :This is my pick for springtime drinking.  Brokenwood is one of the few wineries in the world that actually specialize in making Semillon and produces three different versions of it.  The ‘straight’ one sees no wood and...

Winery's Notes - Incredibly vibrant and expressive on the nose with layers of lemon flesh, lime juice, apples and grapefruit at the forefront. Elevated and lifted notes of lemon myrtle, sweet jasmine, kaffir lime leaf, coriander seed and sea spray...

The Battle of Bosworth 2018 Puritan Shiraz is bold and balanced, with  silky tannins, vibrant acidity, and a smooth, velvety texture. It is  natural, sulfite-free, and unoaked, allowing for the pure flavors of the  grapes to be fully...

Producer's Notes:  Located in the Seaview area of McLaren Vale, where there is only a few feet of topsoil over a hard shelf of chalk. The cuttings were planted as bush vines on thewestern slope of Hammerschlag’s property. Yields are low with...

  They’ve been shoveling dirt on the Aussie Shiraz category for over a decade now but the fact of the matter is, just because the wines aren’t selling as well in the United States as they used to, it doesn’t mean the best...

PRIMA Notes:  The Footbolt Shiraz is packed with dark, savory fruit flavors, fermented in open-top vats, with some food treading still taking place, just like the old days.  The wine is aged in both new and used French oak barrels and finally...

Winemaker Notes:The 20 Rows Shiraz block was planted in 1962 on the Langhorne Creek flood plain, which is managed to receive late winter and early spring flood water from the Bremer River assisted by a series of channels and weirs. This is a special and...