The Everest Shiraz 2021

Immensely complex and captivating, the bouquet shows black/blueberry, vanilla, cocoa, charcuterie, Asian spice and cedary oak characters. The palate delivers exceptional weight and substantial mouthfeel, wonderfully complemented by plush texture and layers of velvety tannins. Exquisitely composed with layers of delectable flavours, it’s graceful and majestic. At its best: 2028 to 2049

Just about everything is done by hand to make this wonderful expression of what the Barossa can offer the world. From the vineyard to the winery, it’s a hands-on approach including hand plunging to coax the flavour and tannins to do their things. It’s a tiny production wine bottle unfined and unfiltered. So it’s almost a direct line to the vineyards of the old Barossa. Dark fruit swirls through a sumptuous palate loaded with spicy plum and, dark chocolate. Yes, it’s a powerful wine but such is its balance that it releases with real poise and polish. Outstanding wine from a great vintage.
Score: 98/100 Cellar: 25 years

Deep crimson. Intense blackberry dark chocolate aromas with roasted chestnut notes. Richly concentrated blackberry pastille, praline, roasted chestnut marzipan, demi-glace flavours, fine loose-knit chocolaty textures and well-balanced acidity. Beautifully crafted wine with lovely density, richness and vigour. Drink now–2038

The initial vintage of this wine from the 2005 vintage picked up ‘World’s Best Shiraz’, and every release since then must also have been a contender. Coming from such a great vintage as 2021, this was always going to be something very special. Just 650 bottles made, the wine spent a year and a half maturing in French oak, including a contribution from new oak.
Dark maroon/magenta in colour, this is supple, gorgeously plush and ever-so-generous. We have notes of smoked meats, cassis, blackberries, licorice, chocolate, cocoa powder, soy, leather and coffee beans. Finely balanced with silky tannins, it offers such amazing length and the intensity never waivers for a moment. A thirty year proposition.

Deep, dark, inky and opaque in the glass. Aromas of mulberry, stewed plum, mocha, dark chocolate, sweet spice, ferrous earth and nutmeg oak. Full bodied, fleshy, opulent and dark fruited. There’s real concentration, power and decadence here, all balanced admirably by firm, structured tannins and bright acidity. Big time Barossa shiraz, opulent and not for the faint hearted. 2024–2039

The iconic shiraz from Château Tanunda, selected from their best blocks, matured in French oak for 18 months followed by 24 months of bottle ageing before release. Deep plum, chocolate-dipped raspberry and blackberry fruit notes with star anise, vanillin oak, licorice, dark cocoa, clove, leather, dried tobacco and earth. Full bodied, with some morello cherry joining in, everything framed by fine, powdery tannins, lacy acidity and a long, extended finish. A good cellar prospect. Drink By 2040