Rusden Black Guts Shiraz
- Red
- Australia
- Barossa Valley
- Shiraz/Syrah
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 17
- Community notes
- 206
- Merchant offers
- 14
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 93/ 1002009 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 90/ 100206 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £47per 75 cl2009 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021
- Drinking window
- 2012–2018past its window2008 · 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 174 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Barossa Valley Shiraz.
- Body4.8 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.1 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.0 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness2.2 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · plum, black fruit, blackberry, blackcurrant, dark fruit
- Oak · oak, chocolate, vanilla, coffee, tobacco
- Earth · leather, tar, earthy, cocoa, iron
- Spice · pepper, licorice, eucalyptus, mint, savory
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, cherry cola
- Dried fruit · prune, raisin, fig, dried fruit, 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.
2002One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2009
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.
- 2023unit not stated
- 2022unit not stated
- 2021unit not stated
- 2018unit not stated
- 201794drinkersunit not stated
- 200993critic£47 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021
- 200892critic
- 200794critic£20 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, March 2018
- 200697critic£58 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2017
- 200594critic£47 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, June 2018
- 200497critic£54 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, February 2019
- 200395critic£28 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, October 2016
- 200296critic£54 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2023
- 200187critic
- 200089drinkers
- 199994drinkers
- 199891drinkers
- Drinkinginside 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
- 2006
- 97 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2003
- drinking, window 2006–2026
- Lowest price
- 2007
- £20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | £47 | 93 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021 |
| 2007 | £20 | 94 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2018 |
| 2006 | £58 | 97 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2017 |
| 2005 | £47 | 94 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, June 2018 |
| 2004 | £54 | 97 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2019 |
| 2003 | £28 | 94.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2016 |
| 2002 | £54 | 96 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2023 |
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