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“A 6th generation Barossan, Dan Standish established his eponymous winery in 1999 whilst still working as winemaker at Torbreck Vintners. His endeavour initially began around an ancient parcel of Shiraz owned and farmed by his father. Due to family upheaval this source is now gone but has been supplemented by various sites throughout the Barossa Region that he has identified as significant and unique.All batches of fruit are fermented and matured individually then follows a strict selection in the winery that can see as much as 80% of the original blend discarded and sold off in bulk. As with the finest producers in Europe only the finest material is sold under the Standish Wine Company label.
“Stylistically Dan’s wines are as profound as you would expect from Barossa Valley old vines but they have a satin texture and dreamy perfume that sets them far apart from his contemporaries. Here, dark fruits are encased in cocoa and earthy richness but with gentle spice, soil tone, asphalt and a stony minerality that gives the wines a beautiful dimension. These are special wines, among the very best being made in Australia today. When you see what Grange and Hill of Grace sell for these days, these are a bargain.” Andrew Guard, Distributor
About the 2022 vintage by Dan Standish: “Blessed with a long cool ripening season each of these 2022 Shiraz’s are unabashedly Barossa but more intricately reveal a distinct sense of place in which the vines inhabit. An outstanding vintage to showcase the intimate temperaments within our special part of the world.” Dan Standish.
“The 2022 season in the Barossa was a lovely one. In Dan Standish’s words, it was a “perfect vintage: wet winter, wet spring, followed by a hot but not crazy-hot summer. It was almost the perfect ripening season. A rain event in mid-January, and then we didn’t get that two weeks of 40 plus degrees we normally get at the start of February. We just didn’t get it. It was long, slow, even ripening. The best wines in the world are the wines that harness a variety to express the earth in which it was grown, via the hands that made it, and in so doing, hurl the drinker headlong into a world of curiosity and wonder. Like music, wine has a way of doing that… Drinkers will likely express their preferences for each wine, and as I see it, the 2022 season has produced the strongest set of Standish cuvées to date.” – Erin Larkin from Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate.
A matrix of tensile grip and flowy Eden Valley acidity.
100 POINTS, Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate “The 2022 Lamella Shiraz has a little secret held within, and it’s one not noted on the label. Within this cuvée, is just two barrels of fruit from the Stonegarden Vineyard, the original Lamella Vineyard, before the current Huttonvale Farm. Stonegarden was planted in the Eden Valley in the middle 1800s and is a historic site. The wine rises with Chinotto and blood orange, black tea and pressed flowers. It is, in its quiet way, kaleidoscopic and mottled … it does not stay still, it gently moves across the palate like sunlight over the course of a day. The long finish speaks of raspberry pip and sandalwood, pomegranate, Boscobel rose and even the softest suggestion of scraped vanilla pod. If you have the benefit of time, I would recommend tasting this on both day one and day two. As I see it, day two has all of the complexity of day one, with the added seamlessness and silk that only time can bring. This is the most alluring Lamella I can recall ever tasting on release, despite many previous releases’ flirtation with perfection. 100% whole bunch. 14.9% alcohol, sealed under natural cork and wax.”
98 points, Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion “The ’22 release sees the Lamella fruit source shift to the ancient vines of the Stonegarden vineyard, planted in 1885, just out of Springton in the Eden Valley and a source for some of the region’s top cuvées. It is a jaw-droppingly beautiful wine. Taut and finely structured despite the seemingly endless depth of its pure core of plum, black cherry and blue fruits. Hints of raspberry pip, sage, vanilla bean, sandalwood, liminal Averna tones, dried citrus rind, charcuterie, cold black tea, licorice root and crushed rock. Its fruit is sleek and polished, its line graceful, with an underlying sense of latent power, tannins uber-fine and compact, and there’s a quartz-like clarity to its acidity as it propels the wine onwards. Give this one a good decant and pop a few bottles away.”
RRP $170 Our Special Price $157.99 – MAXIMUM OF 3 BOTTLES PER CUSTOMER.
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