2025 Agricola Flaxman Valley Naimanya & Home Shiraz

97 pts
Agricola's home vineyard and a cool, restrained and seriously structured wine that makes a compelling case for a new direction in Barossa Shiraz.

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The Agricola home base. Naimanya and Home are Callum Powell's own elevated, rocky Flaxman Valley sites, and this wine has been at the heart of the Agricola range since the beginning. The vines are very old, the altitude is high, and the wines have always shown it.

Where Seeliger is bright and perfumed, this is more inward and structural. A cooler, tighter expression of Barossa Shiraz that sits firmly in the new wave camp, with the kind of medium-weight, tannin-driven elegance that the likes of Sami Odi and Standish have made their calling card. The 2025 season's early, dry harvest and low yields have only added to the intensity and the natural acidity that gives these wines their line.

It's a wine that asks for patience rather than immediate gratification. Perfumed and mineral on the nose, with a serious, sinewy structure on the palate and a long, savoury finish. The tannins are the headline, fine and persistent, lending the wine real shape and cellar potential. Not a wine for those wanting classic big Barossa fruit; very much a wine for those who aren't.

97 points
"Well, look. This wine is so good that I’m almost speechless... Boy oh boy oh boy. The wide, encompassing, Glad-Wrap feel of the tannin; the flare; the focus; the joy. This wine is epically good in the freshest of ways."
- Campbell Mattinson

97 points - "Well, look. This wine is so good that I’m almost speechless. I’m tempted to just say that it’s “bloody magnificent,” as I did in the comments on The Winefront, and call it a day. It somehow manages to be complex, forceful, light and insistent at once. It tastes of nuts, peppers, red and black berried fruit, florals, earth, smoked meats and more, but if ever there was a wine that is more than the sum of its parts, this wine is it. Boy oh boy oh boy. The wide, encompassing, Glad-Wrap feel of the tannin; the flare; the focus; the joy. This wine is epically good in the freshest of ways." - Campbell Mattinson

95 points - "The vines have already got a letter from the Queen, the locale at elevation that settles in to Eden at high-high heights.

There’s a quite distinct understatement to this wine, finesse, quietness, a distinctly fresher, tighter style that will likely irk some traditionalists but likewise draw in those seeking medium weight, tannin-hewn reds of perfume, minerality and coolness. Dark cherry, even some blue and red berry fruitiness, rose hip tea in chalky, puckering mode, lavender floral splashes, nutty woody notes in there, a rasp of black pepper, some brambly herbal all found in the mesh of things. Seamless in its integration of all the varied elements of fruit, savoury elements, earthiness with the rough, suede tug of lengthy tannin ropes lend shape and chew. An earthy, hazelnut-savoury finish superb. Proper stuff, sinewy and compact, serious in its expression of the variety and so distinct." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

2025 was an early and dry harvest, with low yields leading to concentrated flavours and striking natural acidity. With the concentration of flavour and tannin profile these wines are built well for the cellar.

This harvest has seen a new addition of an old vine Flaxman shiraz and riesling site. I had worked with Chris and Anthony Steinert’s vineyard in the past and prior to vintage they asked if I was interested in working with them again. It has been a pleasure to be reacquainted with their 100-year-old, dry grown vines on the hillside of the southern Flaxman Valley.

The resulting shiraz wine from this site expresses a brighter side of Flaxman Valley compared to our elevated rocky hillside at home and Naimanya. These wines seemed to show best on their own, so it was decided to bottle two Flaxman shiraz wines this year: ‘Naimanya & Home’ and then ‘Seeliger’, which is named after the Steinert’s ancestors who planted their vineyard over 100 years ago.

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type Red
Body Full Bodied
Variety Shiraz
Country Australia
Region Eden Valley
Australian State SA
Feature High Score
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Critic Score 95
Alcohol 13.5%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2025
Closure Cork

Agricola

Agricola Vintners, led by Callum Powell, marks a new chapter in the Powell family's history in the Barossa Valley. After working alongside his father, Dave Powell of Torbreck, Callum now creates his own legacy, sourcing fruit from family vineyards and renowned sites like Hoffmann.

Callum’s winemaking journey started in childhood and includes valuable experiences in the Rhône Valley with Jean-Louis Chave. This background instills a deep respect for terroir in his work in Barossa and Eden Valleys.

At Agricola Vintners, Callum focuses on Shiraz, using minimal intervention to let the fruit shine. His wines blend grapes from exceptional vineyards, resulting in complex, vibrant flavors without heavy oak influence.

Callum employs 100% whole bunch fermentation and natural processes, maturing wines on gross lees for 12 months. This approach produces bright, expressive wines that capture the essence of the Barossa with a fresh perspective.

Callum Powell with his dog at his tiny Barossa winery Agricola

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