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Two Hands Ares

Tracked vintages
18
Community notes
212
Merchant offers
55

What we know about this wine

Critics
94/ 1002018 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers
90/ 100212 notes, every vintage
Market price
£66per 75 cl2018 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
Drinking window
2018–2030peak2013 · 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 169 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Barossa Valley Shiraz.

Body4.7 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.0 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin3.2 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness2.3 / 5
DrySweet
  • Black fruit · blackberry, plum, blueberry, black fruit, dark fruit
  • Oak · oak, vanilla, chocolate, tobacco, dark chocolate
  • Spice · pepper, licorice, cinnamon, eucalyptus, savory
  • Earth · leather, smoke, earthy, tar, minerals
  • Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, pomegranate
  • Dried fruit · prune, fig, raisin, black raisin

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£61–£151GBP per 75 cl · 13 priced vintages

2001One 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
  • Past its windowits window has closed
  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
2003
97 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2004
peak, window 2008–2036
Lowest price
2003
£61 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.

Ares monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£50£100£1502018£662016£672012£782011£812010£842009£842008£702007£752006£1122005£1512004£692003£612001£74

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Ares 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. 4 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them
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Ares monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2018£6694—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
2016£6794—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
2012£7894.5Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2018
2011£8194Noper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2022
2010£8494Noper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2021
2009£8496—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2021
2008£7094.5—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024
2007£7593.8Noper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2022
2006£11295.3Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2020
2005£15195.5Noper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2021
2004£6995.8Yesper 75cl, from a 2-bottle in-bond trade, October 2020
2003£6196.5Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2017
2001£7493.7Noper 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, May 2018

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