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Top Rated: Shiraz

By The Tasting Team

It’s worth running your eyes down this list and just, for a second, thinking of both the style of, and the regional impact on, each wine. Every shiraz here is a beautiful example of its type and yet there are so many fine and different types. One of the (many) great strengths of shiraz is that there’s a high level of transparency in the way its region shows through. Murdoch Hill’s The Landau Syrah is both the perfect example, and an absolute belter of a wine.

2024 Shiraz of the Year

Murdoch Hill The Landau Single Vineyard Oakbank Syrah 2021, Adelaide Hills

99 points (PD*) | Price when tasted $51


Murdoch Hill The Landau Single Vineyard Oakbank Syrah 2021, Adelaide Hills

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This is one of the finest Australian shiraz/syrah I have come across in a long time. So finely tuned, aromatic and fresh it makes my head spin. Violet, iodine, purple fruit persuasions and a swathe of the most beautiful, shapely tannins, like pinions of savoury enforcement riddling olive and smoked meat across the mid-weighted palate. Clearly fruit comes off a site as beautiful as the hands that crafted this wine. – Ned Goodwin MW

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This is an edited extract from the 2024 Halliday Wine Companion, with reviews by James Halliday, Campbell Mattinson, Dave Brookes, Jane Faulkner, Jeni Port, Mike Bennie, Ned Goodwin MW, Philip Rich and Shanteh Wale. Cover art by Ka Mo.

*Panel decision – score awarded by the Halliday Tasting Team at the annual Awards judging.


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