Kay Brothers Hillside Shiraz
- Red
- Australia
- McLaren Vale
- Shiraz/Syrah
- Tracked vintages
- 8
- Community notes
- 96
- Merchant offers
- 10
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 93/ 1002006 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 83/ 10096 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £22per 75 cl2006 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2020
- Drinking window
- 2010–2019past its window2006 · 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 222 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian McLaren Vale Shiraz.
- Body4.8 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.0 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.2 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness2.2 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, vanilla, chocolate, cedar, tobacco
- Black fruit · blackberry, plum, black fruit, dark fruit, blueberry
- Spice · pepper, licorice, eucalyptus, menthol, cinnamon
- Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, cocoa, tar
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, red cherry
- Dried fruit · prune, raisin, dried fruit, fig
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.
2002One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2006
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.
- 2022unit not stated
- 202185drinkersunit not stated
- 202090drinkers
- 200693critic£22 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2020
- 200595critic£31 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2023
- 200493critic£34 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2023
- 200392critic£23 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2021
- 200293critic£14 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2022
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2005
- 95 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2002
- £14 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.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | £22 | 93 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2020 |
| 2005 | £31 | 94.7 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2023 |
| 2004 | £34 | 93.3 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2023 |
| 2003 | £23 | 91.5 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2021 |
| 2002 | £14 | 92.5 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2022 |
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