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Red
Australia
Barossa Valley
Shiraz/Syrah

Tracked vintages: 23
Community notes: 667
Merchant offers: 74

What we know about this wine

Critics: 98/ 1002022 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers: 91/ 100667 notes, every vintage
Market price: £74per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2024
Drinking window: 2022–2035peak2017 · 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 321 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Barossa Valley Shiraz.

Body4.8 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.0 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin3.2 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness2.4 / 5: DrySweet

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

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£48–£99Shop asks£75–£100GBP per 75 cl · 15 priced vintages

2000One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2021

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
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: 2022; 98 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2010; drinking, window 2016–2028
Lowest price: 2003; £48 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

The Factor 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. 6 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

The Factor monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2021	£74	98	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2024
2020	£100	97.3	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2019	£78	96	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024
2018	£75	96.3	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2017	£64	94.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2020
2016	£66	96	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025
2015	£75	95.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, March 2022
2010	£59	97	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, June 2016
2006	£85	93.5	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2021
2005	£87	95	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2022
2004	£64	95.7	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2023
2003	£48	94.5	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2019
2002	£58	96	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024
2001	£99	94.8	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2021
2000	£70	93.7	—	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, February 2023

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