Description
“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 2023 vintage by Dan Standish: ““A gentle elongated ripening created a special vintage giving us wines of great lusciousness and complexity … some of our most complex and captivating wines to date.”
Review on the 2023 Standish Releases by Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate: ““The 2023 vintage in South Australia, Barossa Valley particularly, was cold and wet and certainly threw some curve balls for producers. Diligent and constant attention in the vineyards was the key to success in a year like this. As ever, I was anticipating the release of the 2023’s with bated breath, perhaps more than other more straight-forward vintages, if only to satisfy my curiosity with how a producer like Standish would handle a year like 2023. I was not disappointed. We, the drinkers, can find ourselves obsessed with vintage conditions, and that can disguise how important a role viticulture, vine age and experience with winemaking play in the success of a wine, over and above the lens of a given vintage. Love to hear what you think of the wines, and if you’ve had a chance to open any yet.”
About The Standish: 100% Shiraz. Sourced from the Laycock Family Vineyard, Greenock. Planted on own roots in 2002 Dan Standish has worked closely with this great vineyard since 2005. Ironstone gravels and layered schist on a bedrock of solid ironstone at 314m above sea level. With its easterly aspect protecting it from the harsh western afternoon sun and the gentle sloped gravels draining away any untimely excess rainfall. Bedded deep on their own roots in fragmented ironstone and layered schist this Shiraz clone is in its element.
97 points, Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate “The 2023 The Standish Shiraz is the most “Barossan” of all the Standish cuvées. It exudes earthy brick dust tannins and layers sumac and exotic spices with roasted game and sweet marrow. There are notes of black cherry, dried rose petals, sandalwood, hung deli meat and licorice, all of it strapped to rails of grounded tannin. It’s chewy, substantial and of the earth, in its way. The fruit is sourced from the Laycock family vineyard in Greenock, as always, and it expresses the red clay and loam soils there in its splay of tannic fortitude and density. This is very impressive. It is fresh yet meaty/rocky—both attractive qualities in Shiraz/Syrah. 14.9% alcohol, sealed under natural cork. Drink 2025 – 2043.”
97 points, Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion “The long, extended ’23 vintage manifests itself beautifully in the glass with this release. It could be from nowhere else but the Barossa – the Laycock vineyard in Greenock to be precise. Fruit purity is a leitmotif of the Standish wines and, again, it’s peaking the meter in ’23, with deep black cherry and satsuma plum fruits at its core. There’s fruit density and power here but finesse and detail are close at hand. Tendrils of exotic bunchy spice move through the wine, with glimpses of sandalwood, dried purple flowers, charcuterie, tapenade and the ferruginous stamp of place. What I love about this release is the tension between fruit weight, fine tannin heft and mineral cadence. There is precision and power and that is a very attractive thing indeed.”
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