96 POINTS | Sam Kim, Wine Orbit (2018 Vintage)

"Wonderfully ripe and enticing, the bouquet shows blackberry, dark plum, star anise, vanilla, and hazelnut aromas. The palate is concentrated and superbly weighted with velvety texture and beautifully pitched tannins, making it flavoursome and highly appealing. At its best: now to 2036."

95 POINTS | Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot

“The team’s flagship wine, and tribute to their great-grandfather, makes a reappearance after its previous incarnation from 2018 – obviously, this is an organisation that means what it says when we hear that the wine will be released only from the very best years. Under Diam, the wine saw a year maturing in quality French oak. This is deep purple in colour. The nose exhibits notes of cloves, licorice, blackberries and blueberries, graphite, mocha, soy and beefstock. There is excellent oak integration here. This is a rich and hedonistic wine with impeccable balance, vibrant acidity, silky tannins and a long and persistent finish. A worthy flagship wine from the Barossa, if ever there was one. Fifteen years.”

93 POINTS | Steve Leszczynski, Q Wine Reviews

“Plush, rich and saturated with flavour, slot this flagship from Auld Family Wines, the William Patrick Shiraz 2021, into the traditional Barossa Shiraz file. Unashamedly generous, it speaks of stewed fruit, Christmas cake and rum 'n' raisin dark chocolate with oak-driven cedar and toast. It has a jammy presence thanks to the ripe fruit ensuring it is voluminous. Ripples of caramel slide in late with licorice as the fine tannins cling to a slick of dark berries on a sustained and persistent finish. If you like your Shiraz big and bold with a silky feel, head on over this way. Drink to ten years+.”

93 POINTS | Dave Brookes, Halliday

“A single-vineyard shiraz offering, set in the traditional style, showing expressive, loose-knit plum and black berry fruits infused with baking spice, cedary oak, licorice, tobacco, polished leather, dark chocolate and earth. Full bodied, with a familiar 'old school' feel to the fruit flow and wood spice on the palate. Tannins, tight, fine and grainy, and a finish that lingers nicely with a wash of cedar, vanillin, spice and dark fruits.”

91 POINTS (Silver) | International Wine & Spirit Awards

“Dense plum, prune, and soft currant aromas. On the palate, generous plum crumble, and blackberries meld with sweet spice, showcasing intense yet balanced flavours. Long finish marked by vibrant blackberry acidity and well-structured tannins.’

2021

Shiraz

Bethany, Barossa Valley

Deep crimson with garnet hues.

Intense and layered with ripe fruit, dark plum, anise, and liquorice.

The palate opens with intense bramble and blueberry fruit weight, layered with dried herbs and supported by balanced oak and fine tannins. Dark chocolate and toasted spice emerge mid-palate, while fresh raspberry acidity lifts the finish, beautifully framed by a well-integrated French oak backbone.

Perfect with a Barossa leg of lamb and all the trimmings.

Considered to be one of the great Barossa vintages. Consistent autumnal rain, paired with decent rainfall at the end of spring lead to optimal soil moisture throughout the summer. Cooler summer temperature contributed to vine health and perfectly set bunches. A rare high quality, high yield vintage with tonnages up by 111% on 2020.

ALC %/ VOL
15% v/v

TITRATABLE ACIDITY
6.6 g/l

PH
3.62

French Oak (minimum of 12 months)

Sulphites

Now to 2045.