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– 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.”
