Penfolds RWT Shiraz
- Red
- Australia
- Barossa Valley
- Shiraz/Syrah
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 28
- Community notes
- 858
- Merchant offers
- 124
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 95/ 1002023 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 91/ 100858 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £105per 75 cl2022 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- Drinking window
- 2019–2040peak2017 · 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 576 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Barossa Valley Shiraz.
- Body4.7 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.0 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.2 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness2.2 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, vanilla, chocolate, tobacco, cedar
- Black fruit · blackberry, plum, blueberry, black fruit, dark fruit
- Spice · pepper, licorice, mint, eucalyptus, cinnamon
- Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, mushroom, tar
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, red cherry
- Floral · violet, perfume, lavender, acacia, chamomile
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.
2001One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2022
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.
- 2024unit not stated
- 202395criticunit not stated
- 202296critic£105 / 75cl6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 202196critic£146 / 75cl6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 202097critic£80 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023
- 201996critic£80 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2024
- 201896critic£72 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025
- 201795critic£88 / 75cl3-1500 ml in-bond trade, May 2024
- 201697critic£76 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2018
- 201595critic£81 / 75cl6-1500 ml in-bond trade, November 2018
- 201493critic£79 / 75cl1500 ml in-bond trade, March 2019
- 201394critic£68 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2017
- 201292critic£130 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2022
- 201191critic£67 / 75cl1500 ml in-bond trade, May 2021
- 201094critic£114 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023
- 200992critic£65 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016
- 200893criticunit not stated
- 200793critic
- 200694critic£86 / 75cl1500 ml in-bond trade, October 2023
- 200593critic£72 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2017
- 200493critic
- 200393critic£107 / 75cl1500 ml in-bond trade, November 2022
- 200294criticunit not stated
- 200194critic£72 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2017
- 200092critic
- 199993critic
- 199891critic
- 199791drinkersunit not stated
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2020
- 97 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2017
- peak, window 2019–2040
- Lowest price
- 2009
- £65 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 tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | £105 | 95.8 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2021 | £146 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2020 | £80 | 97.2 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023 |
| 2019 | £80 | 96.1 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2024 |
| 2018 | £72 | 96.4 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025 |
| 2017 | £88 | 95.4 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 3-1500 ml in-bond trade, May 2024 |
| 2016 | £76 | 96.9 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2018 |
| 2015 | £81 | 95.2 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-1500 ml in-bond trade, November 2018 |
| 2014 | £79 | 93 | — | per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, March 2019 |
| 2013 | £68 | 94 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2017 |
| 2012 | £130 | 92 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2022 |
| 2011 | £67 | 90.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, May 2021 |
| 2010 | £114 | 94 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023 |
| 2009 | £65 | 92 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016 |
| 2006 | £86 | 93.8 | — | per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, October 2023 |
| 2005 | £72 | 92.6 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2017 |
| 2003 | £107 | 93.4 | No | per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, November 2022 |
| 2001 | £72 | 94 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2017 |
Where to go next
LWIN 1004331