Rockford Rod & Spur Shiraz - Cabernet
- Red
- Australia
- Barossa Valley
- Shiraz/Syrah
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Tracked vintages
- 8
- Community notes
- 94
- Merchant offers
- 73
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 91/ 1002013 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 84/ 10094 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £41per 75 cl2019 · nearest vintage with a price · single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- Drinking window
- UnknownNot recorded on any vintage we track
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 136 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Cabernet - Shiraz.
- Body4.7 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.1 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.1 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.7 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · plum, blackberry, black fruit, blackcurrant, dark fruit
- Oak · oak, chocolate, vanilla, tobacco, dark chocolate
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, red currant
- Spice · pepper, eucalyptus, licorice, mint, aniseed
- Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, tar, forest floor
- Yeast and lees · cheese, oil, cream
Grapes: Shiraz/Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2013One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2019
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.
- 202084drinkersunit not stated
- 201984drinkers£41 / 75clsingle-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 201885drinkers
- 201779drinkersunit not stated
- 201475drinkers£32 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2019
- 201391critic£26 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2018
- 201292drinkersunit not stated
- 201177drinkersunit not stated
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2013
- 91 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2013
- £26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | £41 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2014 | £32 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2019 |
| 2013 | £26 | 91 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2018 |
Where to go next
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