With their distinctive bottle shape and their repuation for quality wines, Rosemount continue to innovate. Their Shiraz is a smoothly textured, richly flavoured wine with blackberry and plum fruit characters supported by a touch of sweet vanillin oak. The tannins are soft, savoury and lingering.

Powerful, structured and intense. Semaphore subsoils beneath this biodynamic vineyard generate vibrant fruit characters typical of McLaren Vale. Full of explosive red and dark fruits, liquorice, spice and a long and complex fine grained tannin finish.

This is a wine that stays true to more traditional methods in an effort to preserve the purity and flavour of the Barossa Valley. If youre looking for a rich and juicy Shiraz, this may just become a favourite.

Crafted from aged old vines in the Australian Riverlands and McLaren Vale, the wines are then mingled together in French oak barrels, giving the wine great fruit flavour and depth. The shiraz is medium bodied, spicy in black fruits and very drinkable.

Coming from one of the best vintages in recent Barossa history, the Old Block from St Hallett shows what careful vineyard management can do for a wine. Rich, dark and conerntrated but with seamless tannin intergration.

The palate shows soft and lush flavours with persistent red and cherries characters supported by a fine tannin structure. The finish displays lovely length and a harmonious fruit and oak balance. With spicy notes a future and ripe berry character complimenting this well-balanced Shiraz is drinking beautifully now.

One of the benchmarks of Barossa Shiraz, Peter Lehmann's Stonewell is a classic example of the rich concentrated old vine style. While bold on the palate, there is always an inherent complexity to the Stonewell that enables it to be compared with all of the great Australian wines produced today.

Penfolds St Henri is one of Australia's greatest red wines. The Shiraz for St Henri is selected for subtlety and elegance and the finished wine has the structure complexity for extended bottle maturation. The 1991 is a classic St Henri vintage that is good to drink until 2022.

Double Barrel Shiraz has a full and generous palate with a beguiling mix of sweet red fruits and dark chocolate indicative of its origins as Barossa Shiraz. Subtle toasty vanillin derives from aging in traditional French and American oak wine barrels. The careful use of aged Scotch whisky barrels for finishing has added complex nuances of almond-husks and also softened the dense tannins to yield an incredible smoothness.

Three generations of Contis have fashioned wine from their vineyards, established in 1948. In fact, Shiraz from this 2ha Mariginiup vineyard was their flagship wine long before the variety achieved the popularity it enjoys with wine-lovers today. Always surprisingly dense and concentrated - drink some WA wine history.