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SEPPELT St Peters Great Western Vineyards Shiraz, Grampians 2020 Bottle
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SEPPELT St Peters Great Western Vineyards Shiraz, Grampians 2020 Bottle
About this wine
Seppelt St Peters Great Western Vineyards Shiraz, Grampians
With a pedigree dating back more than 50 years, Seppelt’s flagship Shiraz has long been among Australia’s finest and most sought-after red wines. That good bottles from the 1960s can still be good drinking is a tribute to the influence of Colin Preece—one of Australia’s greatest winemakers, who was the manager at Seppelt Great Western from 1932 until his retirement in 1963.
St.Peters has maintained its status as a leading Shiraz in the powerful yet elegant, finely structured Victorian style.
'a leading Shiraz in the powerful yet elegant, finely structured Victorian style.'
Winemaker Adam Carnaby points to a complex, perfumed nose of violets, dark fruit, pepper and spice leading into fresh, mulberry-like fruit flavours, fine tannins and spicy oak.
St.Peter’s proven longevity means the wine is sought after everywhere in the world that fine Shiraz is valued and enjoyed.
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Expert Review
Ned Goodwin MW
A wine with a great track record, marked often by the capacity to age well. No exception this vintage. A warm and very ripe year. And it shows. Dense. A palate-staining sense of extract evinces authority as much as the floral lilt, a welcome levity. Boysenberry, dark cherry, pepper grind, clove, mace and cardamon riffs are drawn to a fine conclusion, lingering long with a whiff of mint and liniment. A classy effort.
94 points, Ned Goodwin MW.
Expert Review
Jeni Port
Former Wolf Blass winemaker, Clare Dry, underwent a baptism of fire when she started at Seppelt in late 2020. Her first job was to blend the company’s flagship red, St. Peters Shiraz. The wine was made by Adam Carnaby, but the final taste and shape of the wine shows Clare’s touch. It’s unusually open for a St. Peters – it’s a style that can be closed and in need of a decanter at this early stage – and this vintage is ready to reveal a wealth of black berry, black cherry, anise, black olive savoury notes, briar and earth. At its heart is a core of concentrated fruit power with generous cedar oak that has been slurped up. Oak is not intrusive, but it is certainly noted. Tannins are ripe and even handed. As always, St. Peters is worthy of extended time in the cellar.
95 points, Wine Pilot (June 2022)
Sourced from the Arrawatta Hill blocks in Great Western and Imperial blocks adjacent the winery. Partial whole-bunch fermentation on selected parcels, maturation in barrique, puncheon and 2800L cask. St. Peters continues its drive for greater elegance while retaining a serious degree of complexity. Not all that easy to achieve in the 2020 vintage, but it's there in the glass, a vibrantly fresh and fragrant Grampians shiraz. Blackberry, cassis, licorice and lifted woody spices steal your attention. A palate, sinewy in tannin and structure, delves deeper into the rich resource of fruit, aided and abetted by smoky, intriguing oak. Fab drinking now and so much more to give.
95 points, Wine Companion (October 2021)
