Standish

Dan Standish (who was the wine-maker at Torbreck until 1999) produces four different wines, each from a specific vineyard that represents a different part and style of the Barossa Valley. All the Standish range exemplify Dan’s enormous passion for the reserved style of Rhône Valley Shiraz. His wines imitate this classic region.

The development of Dan Standish’s Barossa winery has been awe-inspiring in the last few years. Although the small winery has yet to develop an international following like Penfolds, Clarendon Hills or Torbreck, this is only because Standish is a boutique winery making small quantities of wine that are not widely exported. Producing wines of premium quality that are every bit their equal, Standish’s Shiraz are fantastic value as compared to other top Australian wineries.

Prices: In Bond Inc. VAT

Year	Wine	Region	Format	Qty	Score	Price
Standish Schubert Theorem Shiraz 2018 (6x75cl) Inc. VAT: £652.07
2018	Standish Schubert Theorem Shiraz 2018 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (96-98) Mint, sage and thyme accent blackberry and black cherry fruit in the 2018 The Schubert Theorem Shiraz. Full-bodied and rich without being heavy, it finishes tremendously long, with silky, cocoa-powder-like tannins. It should drink well for a couple of decades. 1 In Stock - Immediate Delivery	South Australia	6x75cl	1	96-98 (WA) Read Review/Description	Inc. VAT: £652.07
Standish Schubert Theorem Shiraz 2020 (6x75cl) Inc. VAT: £628.07
2020	Standish Schubert Theorem Shiraz 2020 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (98) The 2020 The Schubert Theorem Shiraz was made with fruit from the Roennfeldt Road vineyard in Marananga, with 70% whole bunches in the ferment. This is the only cuvée in the collection that sees any inclusion of a different maturation vessel: the northeastern corner of the vineyard goes into concrete, because it retains the pure blue fruit characters that so define the wine. When one considers the dirt that is in this vineyard (and I ask you, without dirt, just where would we all be?), when one sees its black, shaley sparkle, one can get a sense of what to expect in the wine. It is always the black, brooding beast of the pack, but there is always—and I repeat, ALWAYS—a core of very pure fruit at its heart. This year is no different, and it is encased in fine but structuring tannin. It soars long across the palate, and yet within it, this wine is elegant and pliable. If the Lamella is the intriguing, pretty wine, and The Standish is the savory powerhouse, then The Relic is the iron fist–velvet glove... which makes this the enigma. I cannot overstate how attracted I am to the prowling, slinking nature of it. The tannins here—of all the wines—have a blueberry skin gravel to them; they are chalky and fine and a little bit gritty… excellent. This is a sensation, in every respect. A hot contender for best wine in the release this year. 2 In Stock - Immediate Delivery	South Australia	6x75cl	2	98 (WA) Read Review/Description	Inc. VAT: £628.07
Standish Single Vineyard Shiraz The Standish 2006 (6x75cl) Inc. VAT: £444.47
2006	Standish Single Vineyard Shiraz The Standish 2006 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (95) The 2006 Shiraz was sourced from a single parcel of 98 year old vines yielding a minuscule 0.5 tons of fruit per acre. It was aged for 36 months in seasoned French oak. A glass-coating opaque purple color, it offers up a superb, room-filling bouquet of cigar box, baking spices, smoked meat, lavender, blueberry, and blackberry liqueur. On the palate this harmonious, velvety-textured effort is voluptuous, full-flavored, succulent, and exceptionally long. It has enough structure to evolve for 4-6 years but will be hard to resist early on. Its prime drinking window will extend from 2014 to 2026. As per photos ,2109235 - NON SIB - CRINKLED LABELS Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: ~1 week	South Australia	6x75cl	1	95 (WA) Read Review/Description	Inc. VAT: £444.47
Standish Single Vineyard Shiraz The Standish 2019 (6x75cl) Inc. VAT: £526.07
2019	Standish Single Vineyard Shiraz The Standish 2019 (6x75cl) James Suckling (98) Such concentrated blueberry and cherry aromas, as well as violets and fresh-earth aromas. This delivers an immediate sense of richness with chocolate in the mix, too. Very pure. The palate has a very resolved feel with deep, essence-like fruit flavors that hold a rich, plum and blackberry line that drives long and very even. This is really something. Drink over the next decade. 1 In Stock - Immediate Delivery	South Australia	6x75cl	1	98 (JS) Read Review/Description	Inc. VAT: £526.07
Standish Single Vineyard Shiraz The Standish 2020 (6x75cl) Inc. VAT: £628.07
2020	Standish Single Vineyard Shiraz The Standish 2020 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (96) The 2020 The Standish Shiraz was made with fruit from the Laycock family vineyard, in Greenock. The first vintage was 1999. This vintage saw 30% whole bunches in the ferment. It offers notes of red dirt, a bit of blood, salted heirloom tomato and satsuma plum. This is concentrated, compacted, plush, dense and muscular, with notes of ras el’hanout, allspice, torched cinnamon and salted Dutch licorice. This wine is like playing "Magic Eye." There’s a lot going on, but if you relax, a pattern emerges and the detail becomes obvious for all to see. Within the fine but plushly tannic frame, there is saltbush and bay leaf, exotic spice and cascading layers of berry fruits. The dirt in which the roots are entangled similarly shows its colors—and these are red, ochre, earth and dust. At first glance, the foolish and the rash will overlook this for being singularly muscular and full-bodied, but like all the best IYKYK (if you know, you know—wink wink) scenarios, there is far more than meets the palate here. Another blockbuster Standish. 3 In Stock - Immediate Delivery	South Australia	6x75cl	3	96 (WA) Read Review/Description	Inc. VAT: £628.07
Standish The Relic Shiraz-Viognier 2007 (6x75cl) Inc. VAT: £565.67
2007	Standish The Relic Shiraz-Viognier 2007 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (94+) The 2007 Shiraz-Viognier (4%) The Relic was sourced from the same parcel. Wild-fermented, it offers up a sexy bouquet of floral notes, bacon, smoked meat, incense, and blueberry. Dense, sweet and layered on the palate, it will offer much pleasure over the next 8-10 years. It does not get much better than this from the 2007 vintage. As per photos ,2109227 - NON SIB - stained/dirty label Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 2-3 weeks	South Australia	6x75cl	1	94+ (WA) Read Review/Description	Inc. VAT: £565.67
Standish The Relic Shiraz-Viognier 2020 (6x75cl) Inc. VAT: £544.07
2020	Standish The Relic Shiraz-Viognier 2020 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (99) The 2020 The Relic Shiraz-Viognier is made with fruit from the Hongell family vineyard in Krondorf, with 15% to 20% whole bunches in the ferment and 1% Viognier skins co-fermented. This is the best I’ve seen it. There’s something about the combination of the hot year and the diminished yields—it has recoiled and recompressed the Viognier on top of and into the Shiraz and brought them into balance/harmony. Beneath its floral and stone fruit guiles is a pool of savory, muscular, red-dirt Shiraz. There is bacon fat and pure berry fruit and spice for days… I’ve recently looked at a previous vintage of this wine alongside an older but immaculate Chateau d’Ampuis, and while their origins were clear in the glass, the Relic proved an Australian perspective more than relevant. The balance between the varieties—and the classic push/pull of sweet and savory—is more harmonious this year than in any I can remember, and the only thing I am more excited about when I consider this wine is what I will say next year, through the lens of an excellent, cool and elegant year. What a fine pair they will make. Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 1-2 weeks	South Australia	6x75cl	2	99 (WA) Read Review/Description	Inc. VAT: £544.07

Year	Wine	Region	Format	Qty	Score	Price
Standish Schubert Theorem Shiraz 2018 (6x75cl) In Bond: £530.00
2018	Standish Schubert Theorem Shiraz 2018 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (96-98) Mint, sage and thyme accent blackberry and black cherry fruit in the 2018 The Schubert Theorem Shiraz. Full-bodied and rich without being heavy, it finishes tremendously long, with silky, cocoa-powder-like tannins. It should drink well for a couple of decades. 1 In Stock - Immediate Delivery	South Australia	6x75cl	1	96-98 (WA) Read Review/Description	In Bond: £530.00
Standish Schubert Theorem Shiraz 2020 (6x75cl) In Bond: £510.00
2020	Standish Schubert Theorem Shiraz 2020 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (98) The 2020 The Schubert Theorem Shiraz was made with fruit from the Roennfeldt Road vineyard in Marananga, with 70% whole bunches in the ferment. This is the only cuvée in the collection that sees any inclusion of a different maturation vessel: the northeastern corner of the vineyard goes into concrete, because it retains the pure blue fruit characters that so define the wine. When one considers the dirt that is in this vineyard (and I ask you, without dirt, just where would we all be?), when one sees its black, shaley sparkle, one can get a sense of what to expect in the wine. It is always the black, brooding beast of the pack, but there is always—and I repeat, ALWAYS—a core of very pure fruit at its heart. This year is no different, and it is encased in fine but structuring tannin. It soars long across the palate, and yet within it, this wine is elegant and pliable. If the Lamella is the intriguing, pretty wine, and The Standish is the savory powerhouse, then The Relic is the iron fist–velvet glove... which makes this the enigma. I cannot overstate how attracted I am to the prowling, slinking nature of it. The tannins here—of all the wines—have a blueberry skin gravel to them; they are chalky and fine and a little bit gritty… excellent. This is a sensation, in every respect. A hot contender for best wine in the release this year. 2 In Stock - Immediate Delivery	South Australia	6x75cl	2	98 (WA) Read Review/Description	In Bond: £510.00
Standish Single Vineyard Shiraz The Standish 2006 (6x75cl) In Bond: £357.00
2006	Standish Single Vineyard Shiraz The Standish 2006 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (95) The 2006 Shiraz was sourced from a single parcel of 98 year old vines yielding a minuscule 0.5 tons of fruit per acre. It was aged for 36 months in seasoned French oak. A glass-coating opaque purple color, it offers up a superb, room-filling bouquet of cigar box, baking spices, smoked meat, lavender, blueberry, and blackberry liqueur. On the palate this harmonious, velvety-textured effort is voluptuous, full-flavored, succulent, and exceptionally long. It has enough structure to evolve for 4-6 years but will be hard to resist early on. Its prime drinking window will extend from 2014 to 2026. As per photos ,2109235 - NON SIB - CRINKLED LABELS Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: ~1 week	South Australia	6x75cl	1	95 (WA) Read Review/Description	In Bond: £357.00
Standish Single Vineyard Shiraz The Standish 2019 (6x75cl) In Bond: £425.00
2019	Standish Single Vineyard Shiraz The Standish 2019 (6x75cl) James Suckling (98) Such concentrated blueberry and cherry aromas, as well as violets and fresh-earth aromas. This delivers an immediate sense of richness with chocolate in the mix, too. Very pure. The palate has a very resolved feel with deep, essence-like fruit flavors that hold a rich, plum and blackberry line that drives long and very even. This is really something. Drink over the next decade. 1 In Stock - Immediate Delivery	South Australia	6x75cl	1	98 (JS) Read Review/Description	In Bond: £425.00
Standish Single Vineyard Shiraz The Standish 2020 (6x75cl) In Bond: £510.00
2020	Standish Single Vineyard Shiraz The Standish 2020 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (96) The 2020 The Standish Shiraz was made with fruit from the Laycock family vineyard, in Greenock. The first vintage was 1999. This vintage saw 30% whole bunches in the ferment. It offers notes of red dirt, a bit of blood, salted heirloom tomato and satsuma plum. This is concentrated, compacted, plush, dense and muscular, with notes of ras el’hanout, allspice, torched cinnamon and salted Dutch licorice. This wine is like playing "Magic Eye." There’s a lot going on, but if you relax, a pattern emerges and the detail becomes obvious for all to see. Within the fine but plushly tannic frame, there is saltbush and bay leaf, exotic spice and cascading layers of berry fruits. The dirt in which the roots are entangled similarly shows its colors—and these are red, ochre, earth and dust. At first glance, the foolish and the rash will overlook this for being singularly muscular and full-bodied, but like all the best IYKYK (if you know, you know—wink wink) scenarios, there is far more than meets the palate here. Another blockbuster Standish. 3 In Stock - Immediate Delivery	South Australia	6x75cl	3	96 (WA) Read Review/Description	In Bond: £510.00
Standish The Relic Shiraz-Viognier 2007 (6x75cl) In Bond: £458.00
2007	Standish The Relic Shiraz-Viognier 2007 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (94+) The 2007 Shiraz-Viognier (4%) The Relic was sourced from the same parcel. Wild-fermented, it offers up a sexy bouquet of floral notes, bacon, smoked meat, incense, and blueberry. Dense, sweet and layered on the palate, it will offer much pleasure over the next 8-10 years. It does not get much better than this from the 2007 vintage. As per photos ,2109227 - NON SIB - stained/dirty label Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 2-3 weeks	South Australia	6x75cl	1	94+ (WA) Read Review/Description	In Bond: £458.00
Standish The Relic Shiraz-Viognier 2020 (6x75cl) In Bond: £440.00
2020	Standish The Relic Shiraz-Viognier 2020 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (99) The 2020 The Relic Shiraz-Viognier is made with fruit from the Hongell family vineyard in Krondorf, with 15% to 20% whole bunches in the ferment and 1% Viognier skins co-fermented. This is the best I’ve seen it. There’s something about the combination of the hot year and the diminished yields—it has recoiled and recompressed the Viognier on top of and into the Shiraz and brought them into balance/harmony. Beneath its floral and stone fruit guiles is a pool of savory, muscular, red-dirt Shiraz. There is bacon fat and pure berry fruit and spice for days… I’ve recently looked at a previous vintage of this wine alongside an older but immaculate Chateau d’Ampuis, and while their origins were clear in the glass, the Relic proved an Australian perspective more than relevant. The balance between the varieties—and the classic push/pull of sweet and savory—is more harmonious this year than in any I can remember, and the only thing I am more excited about when I consider this wine is what I will say next year, through the lens of an excellent, cool and elegant year. What a fine pair they will make. Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 1-2 weeks	South Australia	6x75cl	2	99 (WA) Read Review/Description	In Bond: £440.00

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James Suckling (98)

Wine Advocate (96)

Wine Advocate (94+)

Wine Advocate (99)