Standish The Standish 2023
Standard - 75cl
ETA: 5-7 weeks
- Vintage2023
- ColourRed
- ProducerThe Standish Wine Company
- CountryAustralia
- RegionSouth Australia
- Sub RegionBarossa Valley
- DesignationGI
- Bottle SizeStandard - 75cl
- ABV13.5
- LWIN10048782023
- Avg. Critic Score4.7★★★★★★★★★★
Wine Critic Reviews
This is all about perfume, with integrated blue and black fruit that shows polish and refinement, plus undertones of mulberry bush, cocoa, crushed stones, fresh herbs and violets. The palate is plush and rounded with no hard edges, showing a silken, creamy texture that flows across the palate for minutes, supported by almost melting tannins. In near perfect balance, with all the hallmarks of a cool-vintage syrah. Pretty, textural and aromatic. Excellent. Drink or hold.
The 2023 The Standish Shiraz is the most "Barossan" of all the Standish cuvées. It exudes earthy brick dust tannins and layers sumac and exotic spices with roasted game and sweet marrow. There are notes of black cherry, dried rose petals, sandalwood, hung deli meat and licorice, all of it strapped to rails of grounded tannin. It's chewy, substantial and of the earth, in its way. The fruit is sourced from the Laycock family vineyard in Greenock, as always, and it expresses the red clay and loam soils there in its splay of tannic fortitude and density. This is very impressive. It is fresh yet meaty/rocky—both attractive qualities in Shiraz/Syrah. 14.9% alcohol, sealed under natural cork.
- Drinking Window: 2025 - 2043
- Reviewer Name: Erin Larkin