Into its fourth vintage, the Shiraz fruit is sourced from Gawler River vineyards, grown in rich alluvial river loam, the Angle Vale region provides the old vine component rooted in the famous red clay over broken limestone while Bibaringa at an altitude of 280 metres has vineyards clinging to thin windswept soils perched on quartz outcrops. 10% whole bunch open ferment, hand plunged, basket pressed, 18 months in French barriques and American hogsheads, bottled unfiltered – what a beauty!

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Longhop Shiraz

92/100 points (2009 vintage)
“Longhop Shiraz has fast established a reputation as one of Australia’s best value reds. This 2009 version is up there with the best of them.  Dense colour, dense flavour, lakes of tannin and a good, dry, long finish. Remarkable that this sells for $15. Lovely clip of fresh, slippery, cedary oak (French and American) matches beautifully to minty, blackberried, smoky fruit flavour. There are some sweet, raisiny characters too, forming part of a delicous parade. Very impressive wine.”
Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, May 2010

92/100 points (2009 vintage)
“(…) It has the thick texture which makes the amarone dried fruit styles distinctive, but counterpoints that with beautiful acidity and the sort of terroir-sourced schist rock/sandstone tannins which cannot fail to make the drinker yearn for warm antipasto, tapas, mezes, or big field mushrooms, root veg and dribbling steak.”
Philip White, Adelaide Review, May 2010

“…the $15 is no mistake, though – so scoop this up…” (2009 vintage)
4/5 stars
“(…) Made from grapes off old, low-yielding vines, this wine has fragrant aromas of blackberries and cherries, with hints of eucalypt, white pepper and vanilla oak. It’s full-bodied and fills the mouth with intense flavours of plums, fruitcake, blackberry and a hint of olive. There’s loads of dusty, drying tannin and bright acid and this is equally happy alongside food or a fireplace. I’m not sure how, or why, this is so cheap – the $15 is no mistake, though – so scoop this up for the cold nights ahead.”
Ben Thomas, Weekly Review Melbourne, June 2010

(2008 vintage)
Australia’s most powerful wine under $20
93/100 points
5th place Top 25 Shiraz under $20
8th place Top 100 Reds under $20
“Massive wine. Pitch-black colour. Rich with syrupy flavours of coal, blackberry, tar and minerals and full-on from the first attack of flavour to the last of the long, warm finish. An epic wine. It has a good hit of tannin too, and wave after wave of dark, concentrated fruitiness.”
Campbell Mattinson and Gary Walsh, Big Red Wine Book 2009

“…Exceptional value” 94/100 points (2008 vintage)
The bouquet is bursting with spice, hay, licorice and dark chocolate over the core of black fruits, taking on a more savoury character on the palate, black fruits again to the fore. Exceptional value.”
James Halliday, Sept 2009

“…vibrant, fresh, exciting wine…” 92 ++/100 points (2008 vintage)
“Domenic Torzi and Tim Freeland seem intent on becoming the Simon and Garfunkle of shiraz and grenache, not to mention perfect olive oils, and with wines from the high Barossa and Adelaide Plains continually reinforcing their harmonious translation of old vines and new, with great respect of terroir and hands-on natural, home kitchen winemaking. This is vibrant, fresh, exciting wine, with sinuous and lissome structure rather than jam and syrup, so it makes you thirstier and happier and hungrier as you work down the shoulder and into the label. Suddenly it’s all gone and you haven’t even lit the stove. $15? Jokin’!”
Philip White, The Independent Weekly, Sept 2009