Coming Soon - 2024 Standish The Schubert Theorem 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.

The Schubert Theorem is built from a mosaic of distinct red soil profiles and clonal material along Roennfeldt Road in Marananga. In a technical evolution for the 2024 release, fruit harvested from the vineyard's northeast section was raised in a concrete egg rather than traditional oak barrels to isolate and highlight its site variations.

Other Reviews...
The 2024 The Schubert Theorem Shiraz is forever one of my favorite wines in this lineup—if I am to reach for a bottle at home, this is often the one that my heart steers me toward. Aromatically, the wine leads with blue fruits and licorice, Boscobel rose and pomegranate. This is fresh, complex and powerful; the tannins feel delicately interwoven into the fruit, and the impact on the palate is all seamlessness and flow. Yes! This is an unbelievable wine. This is usually the only cuvée that features vessels other than oak, such as concrete egg. It preserves freshness and purity within the wine, like the eye of a storm, a center of calm and clarity in what is otherwise a maelstrom of dense flavor and texture. 14.9% alcohol, sealed under cork and wax.
100 Points
Erin Larkin - Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

Roennfeldt Road, Marananga is the source; a selection of sites within that strip, as I understand. A wine at the blackest of midnights.
A sense of the old school/good school to this wine, with its impossible richness and concentration, puffs of dusty, freshly lathed wood, old spice cupboard, roasted meats, turned earth, brambles and lavish array of stewed and compote forest berry fruits with cherry liqueur and vanilla wafer in tow. Graphite and coal make an appearance, tannins are sinewy, refreshing, long. Lush fruit counters the grip and dustiness here, the wine stuffed with garam masala spice in the midst of the opulence. And all of of this seemingly controlled, fresh, drawn long, kept in check with wonderful textural compactness. A lot on, a serious, stupendous, monumental wine.
97 Points
Mike Bennie - The Wine Front