A full-bodied rich Shiraz that typifies icon Barossa Shiraz.
NOSE- Dense lift of liquorice and fresh cut fennel with overlays of allspice and caraway. Floral lifts intertwined adds an extra level of class without being obtuse.
PALATE- Sweet fruits of blueberry, blackberry and damson plum with a layer of red cherry fruit, overlay liquorice and milk chocolate. The chocolaty nature of the wine melds well with the density of tannins allowing a silky to velvet like texture that persists long after the wine is consumed.
Cellar carefully for 10+ years, peak drinking 2028-2035
Gold Medal / 95 pts– Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2026
Gold Medal– Barossa Wine Show 2025
Gold Medal– Great Australian Shiraz Challenge 2025
Gold Medal– Melbourne Royal Wine Awards 2025
Gold Medal– Royal Adelaide Show 2025
Gold Medal – Sydney Royal Wine Show 2025
95 Points – Ken Gargett – Wine Pilot 2025 “The famous Filsell Shiraz from their Barossa Valley vineyard with vines planted over a century ago, is still cracking value and always a delicious drink. There is a richness and generosity immediately apparent with this wine, which shows impeccable extraction. The colour is inky dark in the centre with a dark purple rim. We have notes of plums, black fruits, soy, mulberries, coffee grinds, cassis and chocolate, though some red fruits, raspberries and cherries, drift in and out. A supple texture here and juicy acidity, this is finely crafted with the oak deftly handled, giving the wine a flick of a vanillin note. Firm tannins sit comfortably towards the end of a very long finish. This will easily handle a decade, even two, in the cellar, and likely continue to improve over that time.”
95 Points – Tony Love – Wine Pilot 2025 “Welcoming from the outset, with a faintly smoky, charry sense to the nose, a suggestion of crumbled earth and forest floor as an understory. Then comes the fruit - a fresh crush of purple plum, vibrant flavours, a reverb of that initial blacksmithy char, and an intricate weave of fine yet sticky tannins with a lip-smacking finish. Its depth with a confident vitality gives this a special sensibility and a formidable future.”
