2024 Mada Poachers Shiraz

96 pts Trophy!
The winner of BEst Red Wine at the 2025 NSW Wine Awards!

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Description

Poachers is Hamish Young’s top Shiraz – and the 2024 is a belter.

The fruit comes off Poachers Vineyard near Murrumbateman, a higher, cooler site that gives Shiraz both power and precision. It’s the fuller of his two Shiraz releases, but still made in that unmistakably Hamish way – thoughtful, restrained and quietly confident.

2024 was a steady, even season, and the fruit came in spot-on. Fermented wild, gently worked, and aged in old oak, it’s a wine built around texture and balance rather than muscle.

There’s plenty going on. Dark berries, pepper, a bit of cured meat and firm but fine tannin which sures the whole thing up. It’s structured but fresh, with just enough weight to feel serious without losing that drink-now appeal.

Classically elegant and very smartly put together by Hamish, this is one of the best value premium Shiraz in the region.

Riedel Trophy for Best Shiraz
Prosperity Trophy for Best Red Wine in Show
- 2025 NSW Wine Awards

96 points - "Riedel Trophy for Best Shiraz Prosperity Trophy for Best Red Wine in Show" - Wine Show (2025 NSW Wine Awards)

Opulent, seductive yet defined by a firm, detailed structure. Red cherry and blue fruits into cedar wood, alpine herbs and toasted waffles.

Vineyard: Poachers, Murrumbateman, NSW

Planted: 1998

Soil type: Mostly clay loam over Granite.

Clone: PT23

Picking dates: March 11

Picking method: Hand harvested with minimal vineyard sorting.

Processing: 40% whole bunches included during fermentation. Moderate fermentation work through pigéage and remontagé.

Maturation: 14 months in French oak barriques. 25% New.

Alc: 13.5%

Price Bracket $31 to $40
Type Red
Body Full Bodied
Variety Shiraz
Country Australia
Region Canberra
Australian State NSW
Feature High Score
Trophy Winner
Critic Score 96
Alcohol 13.5%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2024
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Mada Wines

Mada wines sees ex-Eden Road operational winemaker Hamish Young venture out on his own for the first time.

Sourcing fruit from some great sites across the Canberra and Hilltops regions, his first releases were a smash hit and his star continues to rise.

His wines show a fresher and more modern side of NSW wine, all about vibrant fruit and ease of drinking. He looks for texture in his aromatic whites, freshness in his delightful red wines, each release sees him refine his own 'house style' a little more.

This is a Canberra producer to watch for the future - one of the new crop shaking up the regional scene.

As Mike Bennie once said, "Mada Wines should be put on your list of wines to watch, or indeed to buy a bit of....then probably a lot of."

Winemaker Hamish Young Mada Wines

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