Coming Soon - 2024 Standish The Standish 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.

Sourced from the iron-rich soils of the Laycock Family Vineyard in Greenock, The Standish Shiraz serves as the structural baseline of the lineup. The 2024 vintage saw whole-bunch inclusion during fermentation increased to 50% to construct a more deliberate, firm architectural frame from this warm western Barossa microclimate.

Other Reviews...
The 2024 The Standish Shiraz is typically powerful, savory, closed and spiced here. The nose leads with sweet paprika dolce, brick dust, rose petal, black cherry and licorice. Like all the 2024 Shirazes tasted today, the palate here is silky and structural. In fact, tasting these wines side by side, The Relic is more tannic, but this is firmer, in its way. This is ever the wine in the lineup that shows a clear sense of place. It tastes like the power and the shape that the Barossa effortlessly grows from the ground up. It is impressive and impactful. 14.9% alcohol, sealed under natural cork.
98 Points
Erin Larkin - Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

Laycock Family Vineyard in the parish of Greenock of the Barossa Valley.
This has richness and depth, a heartiness and gentle warmth, a stewed fruit character, a breathy spice note, lavish perfume and general sense of robust red wine territory. Dashes of eucalyptus and resinous spice chime in, pepper, violet florals too. Choc-cherry, stewed plum the mainstays. A little tarry grip through it all, tannins a little on the savoury side and clunking through the mesh of deep fruit and spice. A nod in the direction of old timey Valpolicella? The thought came to mind. A bold, rich, sweet strike and a slippery yet pulled in finish. It should satisfy a legion, but in the scheme of top flight Barossa, a touch elementary in this release.
93 Points
Mike Bennie - The Wine Front