Average critic rating: 97,2
Parker : 96 Stuart Mc Closkey: 99-100 The Wine Front : 95
A myth: Dan Standish is Australia's most talented winemaker and since 2016 his wines have been simply the best Australian wines on par with Penfolds Grange and Henschke Hill of Grace, which cost 5-6 times more.
Plum, blackberry, blueberry, violet, lavender, vanilla, spices, earth: no, it's not a Prévert litany but a marvelous olfactory harmony, perfectly dosed and balanced.
The palate is dense, full-bodied and resolute with its soft black fruits and supported by structuring tannins. The finish is endless and regular on black fruits and liquorice.
Superb from start to finish!
To be enjoyed with a game bird, a lamb shank or a rib of beef.
Robert Parker : 96/100
The 2020 The Standish Shiraz was made using fruit from the Laycock family vineyard in Greenock. The first vintage was 1999. This vintage saw 30% whole bunches in the ferment. It offers notes of red earth, a little blood, salty heirloom tomato and satsuma plum. It's concentrated, compact, plush, dense and muscular, with notes of ras el'hanout, allspice, burnt cinnamon and salty Dutch licorice. This wine is like a game of "Magic Eye". There's a lot going on, but if you relax, a pattern emerges and the detail becomes apparent to all. In a fine but plush tannic frame, there are salt brush and bay leaves, exotic spices and layers of cascading berries. The earth in which the roots are tangled also shows its colors - red, ocher, earth and dust. At first glance, the foolish and the unwary will not see that this wine is singularly muscular and full-bodied, but like all AICYK best-case scenarios (if you know, you know - wink), there is much more than can be seen here. Another Standish blockbuster.
Eric Larkin - 12 Mai 2022
Maturity: 2022 - 2042
Stuart Mc Closkey : 99-100/100
The Standish was noticeably more affordable (48 hours in carafe) and reminds me a bit of the 2019, albeit with a bit more charge. The bouquet is mesmerizing and offers an intoxicating mix of saturated black and blue pastilles, blackberry cream, blackberry, India ink, violet and lavender. There is a perceptible brackish connotation in all these fruits. Kelp and graphite are a perfect marriage... The palate glides like silk - not a hair askew. The infallible feeling of purity and sensuality is overwhelming. Exquisite, in a word. My notes flow more easily, suggesting accessibility. That said, it still needs 5-8 years and will be at its best in 20-25 years. Full-bodied, supremely balanced - tannins are firming. The fruit is wonderfully pure, luscious, extravagant and has a wonderful rich lacquer sensation on the palate. It's an amazing release and I can feel my tasting note picking up speed - disconcerting. Abundant polished dark fruit wrapped in salt, graphite, licorice and mocha. Wonderfully intense and decadent. The finale is endless and never stops giving. Dried blood orange after a few minutes... Damn amazing. Really, so much. Served in Zalto Bordeaux glasses.
Stuart McCloskey – February 10, 2021
Maturity 2028 -2047
The Wine Front : 95/100
In my opinion, there aren't many better producers in the Barossa than Standish. The acidity is just right, and the tannin quality is quite different from the mainstream. I don't know how they do it, but surely there's a little pixie dust in the mix? It is a 100% Greenock Shiraz, from the Laycock vineyard. I live in a street whose name contains the word "cock", so I feel in affinity with this wine.
A little vanilla and floral fragrance, blueberry, boysenberry, a little earth and spices. Blue fruits, spice, some creamy vanilla oak, supple but dense tannins, freshness and a sweet tea scent on a long finish. Maybe a little raspberry. Excellent, a little more approachable in style, and obvious, than Standish's other wines in 2020, but charming and adorable all the same. More than a little delicious. Exotic Indian spices, floral, thyme and lavender, vanilla and toast. Blackberry, earth and toast, hard tannins, black olive and ripe blackberry on a long, firm finish. It looks very basic. A slight heat runs through it, but it has mojo.
Gary Walsh - Mai 2022
Maturity: 2023-2037
Pinot Lorem is very painful, it will be followed by a doctor, but it will happen at the same time as a lot of work and pain. For to come to the smallest detail, no one should practice any kind of work unless he derives some benefit from it. Do not be angry with the pain in the reprimand in the pleasure he wants to be a hair from the pain in the hope that there is no breeding. Unless they are blinded by lust, they do not come out; they are in fault who abandon their duties and soften their hearts, that is toil. It's important to take care of yourself. For to come to the smallest detail, no one should practice any kind of work unless he derives some benefit from it. Do not be angry with the pain in the reprimand in the pleasure he wants to be a hair from the pain in the hope that there is no breeding. Unless they are blinded by lust, they do not come out; they are in fault who abandon their duties and soften their hearts, that is toil. It's important to take care of yourself. For to come to the smallest detail, no one should practice any kind of work unless he derives some benefit from it. Do not be angry with the pain in the reprimand in the pleasure he wants to be a hair from the pain in the hope that there is no breeding. Unless they are blinded by lust, they do not come out; they are in fault who abandon their duties and soften their hearts, that is toil. It's important to take care of yourself. For to come to the smallest detail, no one should practice any kind of work unless he derives some benefit from it. Do not be angry with the pain in the reprimand in the pleasure he wants to be a hair from the pain in the hope that there is no breeding. Unless they are blinded by lust, they do not come out; they are in fault who abandon their duties and soften their hearts, that is toil. It's important to take care of yourself. For to come to the smallest detail, no one should practice any kind of work unless he derives some benefit from it. Do not be angry with the pain in the reprimand in the pleasure he wants to be a hair from the pain in the hope that there is no breeding. Unless they are blinded by lust, they do not come out; they are in fault who abandon their duties and soften their hearts, that is toil. It's important to take care of yourself. For to come to the smallest detail, no one should practice any kind of work unless he derives some benefit from it. Do not be angry with the pain in the reprimand in the pleasure he wants to be a hair from the pain in the hope that there is no breeding. Unless they are blinded by lust, they do not come out; they are in fault who abandon their duties and soften their hearts, that is toil. It's important to take care of yourself. For to come to the smallest detail, no one should practice any kind of work unless he derives some benefit from it. Do not be angry with the pain in the reprimand in the pleasure he wants to be a hair from the pain in the hope that there is no breeding. Unless they are blinded by lust, they do not come out; they are in fault who abandon their duties and soften their hearts, that is toil. It's important to take care of yourself. For to come to the smallest detail, no one should practice any kind of work unless he derives some benefit from it. Do not be angry with the pain in the reprimand in the pleasure he wants to be a hair from the pain in the hope that there is no breeding. Unless they are blinded by lust, they do not come out; they are in fault who abandon their duties and soften their hearts, that is toil. It's important to take care of yourself. For to come to the smallest detail, no one should practice any kind of work unless he derives some benefit from it. Do not be angry with the pain in the reprimand in the pleasure he wants to be a hair from the pain in the hope that there is no breeding. Unless they are blinded by lust, they do not come out; they are in fault who abandon their duties and soften their hearts, that is toil. It's important to take care of yourself. For to come to the smallest detail, no one should practice any kind of work unless he derives some benefit from it. Do not be angry with the pain in the reprimand in the pleasure he wants to be a hair from the pain in the hope that there is no breeding. Unless they are blinded by lust, they do not come out; they are in fault who abandon their duties and soften their hearts, that is toil. It's important to take care of yourself. For to come to the smallest detail, no one should practice any kind of work unless he derives some benefit from it. Do not be angry with the pain in the reprimand in the pleasure he wants to be a hair from the pain in the hope that there is no breeding. Unless they are blinded by lust, they do not come out; they are in fault who abandon their duties and soften their hearts, that is toil. It is important to take care of the patient, to be followed by the doctor, but it is a time of great pain and suffering. For to come to the smallest detail, no one should practice any kind of work unless he derives some benefit from it. Do not be angry with the pain in the reprimand in the pleasure he wants to be a hair from the pain in the hope that there is no breeding. Unless they are blinded by lust, they do not come out; they are in fault who abandon their duties and soften their hearts, that is toil.
