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Erin Larkin zum The Standish 2020 Single Vineyard Shiraz Barossa Valley (Mai 2022):The 2020 The Standish Shiraz was made with fruit from the Laycock family vineyard, in Greenock. The first vintage was 1999. This vintage saw 30% whole bunches in the ferment. It offers notes of red dirt, a bit of blood, salted heirloom tomato and satsuma plum. This is concentrated, compacted, plush, dense and muscular, with notes of ras el’hanout, allspice, torched cinnamon and salted Dutch licorice. This wine is like playing "Magic Eye." There’s a lot going on, but if you relax, a pattern emerges and the detail becomes obvious for all to see. Within the fine but plushly tannic frame, there is saltbush and bay leaf, exotic spice and cascading layers of berry fruits. The dirt in which the roots are entangled similarly shows its colors—and these are red, ochre, earth and dust. At first glance, the foolish and the rash will overlook this for being singularly muscular and full-bodied, but like all the best IYKYK (if you know, you know—wink wink) scenarios, there is far more than meets the palate here. Another blockbuster Standish.
Die Tastingnote vom James Suckling (Oktober 2022):Amazing aromas of metal shavings, cloves, spices, and black and blue fruits. Violets, too. Full-bodied with creamy tannins. Cured meat with iron earth. Almost slatey. Very sophisticated and classy. Drinkable, but this is one to age ideally for a minimum of five years. Try after 2027.
Sourced from the Standish Family Vineyard – Siegersdorf Road. Vine Vale. Barossa Valley. Planted on own roots in 1912 (7.6 Hectares – 12ft x 10ft spacing). Fine white sand over deep heavy red clay at 302m above sea level.
Dense. latent and strapping. this flaunts the flawless purity that can be leached from the famed sandy flints of Vine Vale. Tightly wound with its cards close to the vest. deep-set aromatics of coal. pressed currant and black truffle are foiled by redolent tones of tilled soil. beef broth and slow roasted meats. Dark and brooding with immense concentration. persistence and energy it is somewhat of a heroic style but is gently laced with a long fine cloak of silken tannin. More reticent than its stable mate. it shows wonderful staying power for those with immense patience and cool. dark cellars.
“The sensational Shiraz offers up scents of roasted meats. beef broth. blackberries. and cassis liqueur. Its texture. sumptuous depth. and incredible richness and purity blew me away. Despite its huge size. it possesses tremendous equilibrium and definition. Drink this classic South Australian Shiraz over the next 10-15 years.”
Robert Parker - Wine Advocate
