Coming Soon - 2024 Standish Lamella Shiraz

Founded in 1999 by sixth-generation Barossa vigneron Dan Standish, The Standish Wine Company produces a highly allocated portfolio of single-vineyard Shiraz expressions from dry-grown, ancient vines. The 2024 vintage was heavily shaped by early-season frosts and a prolonged dry growing period that compressed the ripening timeline and sharply reduced yields. To maintain site-specific transparency across these conditions, every wine in the collection was subjected to an identical élevage of 542 days and nights maturing on the active lees, allowing variations in topography, soil composition, and microclimate alone to dictate the structural differences between each cuvée.

Shifting to the cooler, higher elevation of the Eden Valley, Lamella is sourced from the ancient, deep-rooted vines of the Stonegarden Vineyard. The lean, stony soils and lower ambient temperatures shift the focus of this cuvée entirely toward linear precision and structural definition.

Other Reviews...
The 2024 Lamella Shiraz features 100% whole bunches, as usual, and the wine offers a profusion of tannins, spice, layers of fruit and length. This is gravelly and mineral, with ferrous tannins, graphite and dried rose petals woven through the finish. There is also a note of raw cocoa. This is a wine that you feel as much as you taste and smell. The tannins linger on the palate and help the flavors remain firmly wedged in the memory. I can still taste from one sip to the next; the bridge between mouthfuls doesn't need to be bridged by memory—it is viscerally there. Notes of licorice, fennel, caraway and timut pepper (in that fresh, grapefruit, black tea, sage, resin, pink grapefruit again, delicate, simple/singular way) coat the finish. 14.9% alcohol, sealed under natural cork and wax.
98 Points
Erin Larkin - Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

The source is Stonegarden Vineyard in Eden Valley. The loftier site makes for a distinct levity and prettiness from 2024. It pops and pours with beauty, but a two day decant/open is worthy too.
A wine of width and length, a distinct spread in the palate and noticeable persitance, but in that, a finesse of tannin, a beauty of perfume, a nipped and tucked fruit profile and a lavish array of spice, savoury elements and herbal lift. A hyped-up perfume opens the wine; florals, dark fruits, game meat, exotic spice. The palate so succulent, lashed with inky plum, mulberry, rich cherry, brambly blackberries, black pepper, Italianate herbal nuance and liquid graphite minerality. It feels impossibly long, wonderfully compact and tense, deeply rich, and somewhat cool in the sense of things. A tour de force of shiraz. Honest to goodness.
97 Points
Mike Bennie - The Wine Front