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Robert Parker's94 points
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Stephen Tanzer93 points
- Variety Shiraz Blend
- Vintage 2011
- Brand Rene-Rostaing
- Cellaring 15 Plus Years
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 13.0% Alcohol
Domaine Rene Rostaing 'Ampodium' Cote-Rotie 2011"Domaine Rostaing, often called René Rostaing after its founder, is a leading ..."$140.00 -
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Falstaff Magazi97 points
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James Halliday94 points
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Robert Parker's94 points
- Variety Shiraz Blend
- Vintage 1997
- Brand Penfolds
- Cellaring 15 Plus Years
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 14.5% Alcohol
Penfolds Bin 95 Grange 1997"This is Australia’s flagship wine. It has become an international wine ico..."$949.99 -
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James Halliday99 points
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Lisa Perrotti-B100 points
- Variety Shiraz Blend
- Vintage 2013
- Brand Penfolds
- Cellaring 10-15 Years
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 14.2% Alcohol
Penfolds Grange 2013"Grange is the benchmark by which other Australian reds are often measured. Gr..."$949.99 -
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Jancis Robinson18 points
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Robert Parker's92 points
- Variety Shiraz Blend
- Vintage 1975
- Brand Penfolds
- Cellaring 15 Plus Years
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 13.4% Alcohol
Penfolds Grange Hermitage 1975"Penfolds Grange sits firmly atop the Australian wine scene as the ultimate ex..."$999.99 -
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Huon Hooke95 points
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Joe Czerwinski96 points
- Variety Shiraz Blend
- Vintage 2017
- Brand Torbreck
- Cellaring 15 Plus Years
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 14.5% Alcohol
Torbreck Descendant Shiraz Viognier 2017"94% Shiraz & 6% Viognier. This wine is directly descended from RunRig. Intens..."$119.99 -
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Gary Walsh96 points
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James Halliday97 points
- Variety Shiraz Blend
- Vintage 2017
- Brand Tyrrell's
- Cellaring 15 Plus Years
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 13.5% Alcohol
Tyrrell's Vat 9 Shiraz 2017"Drinking: Now - 2037+ Tyrrells is one of the first families of Australian ..."$94.99 -
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James Halliday95 points
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Huon Hooke95 points
- Variety Shiraz Blend
- Vintage 2008
- Brand Wolf Blass
- Cellaring 15 Plus Years
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 15.0% Alcohol
Wolf Blass Black Label Cabernet Shiraz Malbec 2008"With over 4 decades of winemaking, Wolf Blass is an icon of Australian wine"$144.99 -
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James Halliday95 points
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Campbell Mattin95 points
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Jancis Robinson17.5 points
- Variety Shiraz Blend
- Vintage 2003
- Brand Yarra Yering
- Cellaring 5-10 Years
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 15.0% Alcohol
Yering Station Reserve Shiraz Viognier 2003"The Yering Station Reserve Shiraz Viognier 2003 is a Red wine from Yarra Vall..."$109.99 -
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Gary Walsh94 points
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Jeremy Pringle94 points
- Variety Shiraz Blend
- Vintage 2011
- Brand Abbotts and Delaunay
- Cellaring 5-10 Years
- Wine Type Red
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Gary Walsh92 points
- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2019
- Brand Punt Road
- Cellaring Ready, but will Keep
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 13.0% Alcohol
Airlie Bank Sauvignon Blanc 2019"A fairly vigorous fruit thinning was called for in 2019, with about 20% of th..."$19.99 -
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Richard Hemming16 points
- Variety Shiraz Blend
- Vintage 2009
- Brand Andean Vineyards
- Cellaring 3-5 Years
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 14.0% Alcohol
Andean Vineyards The Waxed Bat Shiraz Blend 2009"Founded in 1914 in the heart of the Argentine Andes. Recognised for producin..."$22.99 -
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Jancis Robinson16 points
- Variety Shiraz Blend
- Vintage 2010
- Brand Andean Vineyards
- Cellaring Drink Now
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 14.0% Alcohol
Andean Vineyards The Waxed Bat Shiraz Blend 2010"Founded in 1914 in the heart of the Argentine Andes. Recognised for producin..."$22.99 -
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- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2020
- Brand Andre Dezat
- Cellaring 3-5 Years
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 12.5% Alcohol
Andre Dezat Sancerre 2020"The DEZAT family is one of the oldest wine-growing families in Sancerre. Refe..."$54.99
Sauvignon Blanc is a white grape, that has become incredibly popular, with increased plantings in Australia over the last 10 years. It grows best in the cooler wine regions.
Yarra Valley, Adelaide Hills, Margaret River, Orange in New South Wales and Tasmania are all regions which produce wonderful examples of Sauvignon Blanc. The coolest vintages have “grassy”, gooseberry characters, whereas, warmer vintages show more passionfruit flavour, but still with the trademark zingy acidity. In Margaret River, Sauvignon Blanc is often blended with Semillon, this creates a perfect partnership and a fuller style of wine. In New Zealand, Cloudy Bay in the 1980s began producing stunning Sauvignon Blanc wines with extraordinarily intense nettly, gooseberry, and asparagus fruit, that set Marlborough firmly on the world wine map. Today Sauvignon Blanc is now New Zealand's trademark grape.
Sauvignon Blanc is an important white grape in France, especially Bordeaux and the Loire Valley. It thrives on the gravelly soils of Bordeaux, where it is blended with Sémillon to produce Bordeaux Blancs and Cru Classé White Graves. Elsewhere in Bordeaux, it is also blended with Sémillon, to produce the amazing dessert wines of Sauternes. In the Loire Valley and particularly on the chalky soils found in Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé. The wines produced are very different to New World equivalents, they tend to be less pungent, more restrained, mineral with smoky, gunflint notes.
After initial problems, it is now grown very successfully in Chile. The wines are almost halfway between the Loire and New Zealand in terms of fruit character.