Rockford Basket Press Shiraz

Red
Australia
Barossa Valley
Shiraz/Syrah

This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.

Tracked vintages: 38
Community notes: 562
Merchant offers: 43

What we know about this wine

Critics: 95/ 1002018 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers: 91/ 100562 notes, every vintage
Market price: £45per 75 cl2018 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2025
Drinking window: 2022–2031peak2015 · 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 1,240 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Barossa Valley Shiraz.

Body4.6 / 5: LightFull
Acidity2.9 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin2.9 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness2.1 / 5: DrySweet

Oak · oak, vanilla, chocolate, tobacco, cedar
Black fruit · plum, blackberry, black fruit, blackcurrant, dark fruit
Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, tar, mushroom
Spice · pepper, licorice, cinnamon, eucalyptus, mint
Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, red currant
Dried fruit · prune, raisin, dried fruit, fig, fruitcake

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.

Realised in-bond trades£45–£103Shop asks£77–£77GBP per 75 cl · 7 priced vintages

2008One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2018

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: 2016; 96 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2015; peak, window 2022–2031
Lowest price: 2018; £45 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

Basket Press 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. 21 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

Basket Press Shiraz monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2018	£45	95	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2025
2017	£77	93	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2016	£56	96	—	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, September 2021
2015	£57	94	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2020
2013	£103	—	—	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022
2010	£61	96	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2018
2008	£50	94.3	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2017

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