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Yalumba The Octavius Old Vine Shiraz

  • Red
  • Australia
  • Barossa
  • Shiraz/Syrah

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

Tracked vintages
11
Community notes
91
Merchant offers
30

What we know about this wine

Critics
UnknownNobody has published a critic score for a vintage we track
Real drinkers
88/ 10091 notes, every vintage
Market price
UnknownNothing a merchant has quoted in a unit and a currency we can print
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 239 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: South Australia Shiraz.

Body4.7 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.0 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin3.1 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness2.0 / 5
DrySweet
  • Oak · oak, chocolate, vanilla, coffee, tobacco
  • Black fruit · blackberry, plum, cassis, dark fruit, blackcurrant
  • Spice · pepper, licorice, mint, menthol, eucalyptus
  • Earth · leather, smoke, earthy, tar, mushroom
  • Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, morello cherry
  • Dried fruit · prune, fig, raisin, 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.

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.

  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

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