Standish Wine Company 'Lamella' Shiraz 2024

Our Verdict

"This seamless beauty is a candidate for perfection." - Joe Czerwinski - Wine Advocate

"Dan Standish is an extremely experienced winemaker, adding work in the Napa and Sonoma valleys in California, La Rioja in Spain and the Rhone Valley in France to his domestic winemaking." James Halliday

The 2024 Standish wines have been released, and as always they are scarce. Despite an awkward vintage, Dan Standish has crafted exceptional reds, albeit in smaller quantities than his usual meagre output. 

"This is a wine that you feel as much as you taste and smell. The tannins linger on the palate and help the flavors remain firmly wedged in the memory. I can still taste from one sip to the next; the bridge between mouthfuls doesn't need to be bridged by memory—it is viscerally there. Notes of licorice, fennel, caraway and timut pepper (in that fresh, grapefruit, black tea, sage, resin, pink grapefruit again, delicate, simple/singular way) coat the finish." 98 POINTS - Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate

“A wine of width and length, a distinct spread in the palate and noticeable persitance, but in that, a finesse of tannin, a beauty of perfume, a nipped and tucked fruit profile and a lavish array of spice, savoury elements and herbal lift. A hyped-up perfume opens the wine; florals, dark fruits, game meat, exotic spice. The palate so succulent, lashed with inky plum, mulberry, rich cherry, brambly blackberries, black pepper, Italianate herbal nuance and liquid graphite minerality. It feels impossibly long, wonderfully compact and tense, deeply rich, and somewhat cool in the sense of things. A tour de force of shiraz. Honest to goodness." 97 Points - Mike Bennie, The Wine Front

Super limited.

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