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Hobbs 1905 Shiraz

Tracked vintages
7
Community notes
61
Merchant offers
8

What we know about this wine

Critics
97/ 1002018 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers
86/ 10061 notes, every vintage
Market price
£69per 75 cl2018 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2021
Drinking window
2019–2035peak2016 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 44 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Barossa Valley Shiraz.

Body4.6 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.0 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin2.8 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness2.1 / 5
DrySweet
  • Oak · oak, chocolate, cedar, dark chocolate, vanilla
  • Black fruit · blackberry, blackcurrant, black fruit, plum, blueberry
  • Spice · licorice, pepper, aniseed, cinnamon, dried rosemary
  • Earth · earthy, leather, graphite, minerals, mushroom
  • Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red cherry
  • Dried fruit · prune, dried fruit, raisin

Grapes: Shiraz/Syrah. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

  • Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
2018
97 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2016
peak, window 2019–2035
Lowest price
2018
£69 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

1905 Shiraz monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£20£40£602018£69

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

1905 Shiraz monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 4 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them
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1905 Shiraz monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2018£6997—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2021

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