Standish The Standish Shiraz 2018 (750ML)

98-100 WA / 98 JS / 97 DE

#49 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of Australia 2020

The 2018 The Standish Shiraz (a sample blend from barrel) is a bit stalky (it's about 50% whole cluster), but it's gorgeously perfumed, with hints of herbal tea, raspberries, blackberries and licorice. It just exudes complexity, while also being full-bodied, plush and creamy, with a long, elegant finish. This seamless beauty is a candidate for perfection.—Joe Czerwinski, The Wine Advocate

Greenock parcel with an ironstone base and plenty of ironstone through the top soil. This has is super complex and fragrant with some orange zest, intense raspberries, blackberries and an almost Rhône-like blood-orange edge. There’s a deeply spicy thread, driven by oak, which suits the dark-berry and dark-chocolate aromas. Sheer, polished and glossy with a very intense, concentrated delivery of blackberries and dark plums. So polished and silky, powerful and graceful. This has luxurious texture and such underlying power. Drink or hold. - James Suckling

The acid and tannin structure is assertive at first but knits together given time and air. Intense, sinewy and creamy raspberry, damson and blackberry fruit joins spice, mint, mocha and nuances of charcuterie and earth. From the Laycock Family Vineyard in Greenock planted in 2002 on ironstone gravels and schist over red clay and ironstone bedrock.--Sarah Ahmed, Decanter