"This gentle elongated ripening creating a special vintage giving us wines of great lusciousness and complexity... Some of our most complex and captivating wines to date."
- Dan Standish on the 2023 vintage

The 2023 Standish release is a landmark suite of wines for this elite Barossa Valley artisan.

All hyperbole aside, this is as good as Shiraz gets from this part of the world. These are intensely powerful, impossibly concentrated, thunderous wines with the balance of an Olympic gymnast.

In short, if you're a serious collector of the world's finest wines, these deserve a place in your cellar.  Buy this pack - it features a bottle of each cuvee. Cellar these wines. Watch them become legend for decades to come.

• 2023 Standish Wine Co The Lamella Shiraz
• 2023 Standish Wine Co The Schubert Theorem Shiraz
• 2023 Standish Wine Co The Relic Shiraz Viognier
• 2023 Standish Wine Co The Standish Shiraz

2023 Standish Wine Co The Lamella Shiraz

Hailing from the Hutton Vale Farm in Eden Valley, The Lamella is always a standout in Dan Standish’s lineup. The cool, long ripening of the 2023 season has given us a wine that’s both intense and refined, showcasing Eden Valley Shiraz at its apex. Is this the best Lamella ever? Depending on your style preference, it very well might be...

The 2023 is a thing of beauty. Picking ran late this year, well into May, giving the fruit time to soak up a few extra weeks of sunshine. That’s paid off in spades: the tannins are beautifully shaped, there’s a brightness to the acidity that keeps things singing, and the depth of flavour is just next level.

The nose alone is enough to draw you in, floral, a bit exotic, all raspberry liqueur and cinnamon toast, with a whiff of something darker lurking underneath. On the palate, it’s all about that plush, seamless flow with fruit and tannin working in lockstep.

What a wine. Even by Standish standards, this is an exceptional release of one of our favourite wines from one of Australia’s most consistently brilliant Shiraz producers.

98+ points
"Following on from the perfect 2022 release, I find myself opening this wine with a fair bit of excitement... This is velvety and grainy, supple and pliable. The tannins are dry and silky, and they perfectly balance the intensity of sweet/spicy fruit in the mouth. This wine is a clear example of why you must back a producer over a vintage, because a good producer will triumph no matter the conditions."
- Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)

96 points
"A mesh of red berries, regional Aussie bush characters, white pepper, alpine herb and touches of mocha and salted liquorice. Incredibly dense but almost held to a medium bodied weight, a sense of quality, lacy tannin but with authority and a distinct persistence of complex, layered flavours of fruit and herbal inflection. A beautiful overall feel to the wine. It feels symphonic. Energetic too."
- Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

95+ points
"Ripe raspberry, mint and sage, something of a maple syrup smell, exotic spice, slight cut capsicum and creamy oak. So, quite a bit going on here. Full-bodied, black and red fruit, a nutty toffee thing, firm chamois-like tannin, plenty of length with a cool ‘mineral’ feel to acidity. Nice wine. Distinct. 95+ points."
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

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2023 Standish Wine Co The Schubert Theorem Shiraz

Patience was the name of the game for the 2023 Barossa harvest - rain at the wrong time, picking stretching out longer than usual, and plenty of nail-biting decisions. But for The Schubert Theorem, that patience has paid off handsomely. Dan Standish knows this vineyard inside out. He spent eight years figuring out its quirks before he even bottled the first vintage.

This year’s Schubert feels deeper, a little more brooding, with a savoury edge that keeps it honest. There’s that trademark marine note, a salty, iodine thread that weaves through the dense black and blue fruits. Think mulberry compote, a hint of graphite, maybe a whiff of nori if you’re paying attention. The tannins are silky but firm enough to keep everything in line, and the acidity’s got a lovely lift.

An epic Schubert, maybe not the full throttle power of some warmer years but it maybe the most elegant rendition of this cuvee yet from Dan. Compelling wine, really about as good as Barossa Shiraz gets, from our point of view. You know is going to age beautifully but geez, it's going to be hard to leave it alone.

98 points
"The 2023 The Schubert Theorem Shiraz is a gorgeous wine. It is silky, inky, pure, black as the ace of spades and long through the finish... It has rose petals, detail and delicacy, power and precision. Standish performs somewhat like a Burgundian producer—he works with one grape (I suppose two, if you count the small inclusion of Viognier in the Relic) to express different vineyard sites, soil types and elevations. There's no "declassified" fruit in these wines, no flow-on opportunities to other cuvées, just "make or break" viticulture and winemaking. The ancient terroir of the Barossa is writ large in these wines. It is striking. This 2023 Schubert, despite the cool and wet conditions, is a testament to Standish's clarity of vision."
- Erin Larkin (The Wine Front)

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2023 Standish Wine Co The Relic Shiraz Viognier

The 2023 vintage had its fair share of curveballs with rain just when you didn’t want it, waiting for grapes to decide they were ready, a few extra weeks hanging on the vine. But for The Relic, that patience paid off. This is Dan’s showstopper Shiraz Viognier blend, where Barossa meets Côte-Rôtie, and it’s got his old-vine fruit front and centre.

Every swirl of the glass brings a new layer - there’s a bit of sea salt, a touch of iodine, that inky, black-as-night core you can’t quite get enough of. Dark fruits creep in, but at their own pace, unfolding slowly. It’s got this silky, almost slippery feel to it, the tannins measured just right to let the fruit do the talking. The classic glycerol/glossyness from the Viognier judged beautifully this yet. 'Sexy' is a word that immediately comes to mind when tasting the 2023. Oooof.

Clearly not the easiest vintage to get this level of ripeness and balance but Dan’s experience shows. He’s walked the line between power and grace here. It’s a wine that’s both commanding and composed, destined to stick around for decades if you can wait that long. It's a bottle that’ll make you rethink what Barossa Shiraz Viognier can do.

98 points
"The 2023 The Relic Shiraz-Viognier is texturally velvety and smooth; that may sound like a base observation to make, and perhaps it is, but the experience is overwhelmingly silky/ethereal this year... What more is there to say about this, other than that it is sensational? I find this to be an incredibly consistent wine year after year, with my scores rarely deviating too much from "excellent." This is among the very best Shiraz Viognier's in this country; it's a treasure. 14.9% alcohol, sealed under natural cork and wax."
- Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)

96 points
"A pop and pour taste had me excited. Perfume, silky texture, glossiness, charm and drinkability. Fine tannin profile in a sheath of silky draw, white pepper, rosy floral lift, dried rose petal indeed, with touches of stone fruit in concentrated forest berry compote and tart, red plum character. Multi-dimensional in its feel with its extreme length, almost bouncy texture, grip of very fine, quality tannin and sense of refreshment to finish. A dusting of white pepper lingers. Concentration and compact nature. Class."
- Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

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2023 Standish Wine Co The Standish Shiraz

Dan Standish doesn’t rush things. He’s always got one eye on the sky; a farmer’s instinct that’s served him well in Greenock, where the 2023 harvest arrived late, stretching all the way into May. It was one of those seasons where patience paid off: each raincloud threatened to undo months of work, but Dan held his nerve, letting the grapes hang just long enough to build the kind of tannin structure and depth that’s the hallmark of this wine.

The Standish is all about that patience. A slow, steady ripening that turned each berry into a tiny bomb of flavour. There’s a real sense of drive here, a crunchy skin tannin that keeps things taut, while riper seeds bring a rounder, more mellow grip. Throw in some lift from the stalks and that lively acidity from a cooler season, and you’ve got a wine that’s both powerful and intricate.

The Greenock fruit this year gives a wine that’s dense, but never heavy. It’s more like a slow burn than a sprint, destined for a long, fascinating life. One of those bottles you’ll want to come back to for many years to come.

97 points
"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."
- Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)

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