98 points - "The 2024 The Standish Shiraz is typically powerful, savory, closed and spiced here. The nose leads with sweet paprika dolce, brick dust, rose petal, black cherry and licorice. Like all the 2024 Shirazes tasted today, the palate here is silky and structural. In fact, tasting these wines side by side, The Relic is more tannic, but this is firmer, in its way. This is ever the wine in the lineup that shows a clear sense of place. It tastes like the power and the shape that the Barossa effortlessly grows from the ground up. It is impressive and impactful. 14.9% alcohol, sealed under natural cork.

The 2024 The Standish Shiraz was made with fruit from the Laycock family vineyard (the fruit for the 2026 vintage is being picked today, as I stand in the winery with Dan and taste), in Greenock, with 50% whole bunches in the ferment, up from 30% last vintage. I always say that the best amount of whole bunches for me is as much as I can taste; this simple means that whole bunches from Barossa taste the same as whole bunches from Rhône, and both obscure the place in which the fruit was grown. Since that sense of place is at the heart of why I buy, drink and collect wine, I prefer it not to dominate the drinking experience. As usual, the Standish wines harness whole bunches as a tool for texture, structure and complexity but are rarely consumed by it." - Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)

93 points - "Laycock Family Vineyard in the parish of Greenock of the Barossa Valley.

This has richness and depth, a heartiness and gentle warmth, a stewed fruit character, a breathy spice note, lavish perfume and general sense of robust red wine territory. Dashes of eucalyptus and resinous spice chime in, pepper, violet florals too. Choc-cherry, stewed plum the mainstays. A little tarry grip through it all, tannins a little on the savoury side and clunking through the mesh of deep fruit and spice. A nod in the direction of old timey Valpolicella? The thought came to mind. A bold, rich, sweet strike and a slippery yet pulled in finish. It should satisfy a legion, but in the scheme of top flight Barossa, a touch elementary in this release." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

This collection of five Shiraz cuvées from the 2024 Vintage have all been afforded the same “growing up” nurturing regimen or élevage. Over 542 days and nights voyaging through malolactic fermentation, melding with the lively lees, slowly reacting with the tiny ingress of oxygen to mellow and evolve in oak barrels. One notable difference is the concrete egg for the northeast section of the Schubert vineyard.

From a dry growing season these 2024’s have indeed grown into detailed, complex and balanced wines of structured depth and lifted vibrancy. The usual suspects are on offer as well as a rebirth of one of our favourite wines – Andelmonde. After purchasing this vineyard a few years back, Nicole and I have converted it to organic farming, tended to the vines and reduced the yields. As such there are only a few barrels of this one to go around, so we have included it in a mixed six pack to make sure there is enough for everyone to share and relish. Very excited to be able to share these new wines with you!