Barossa Valley

An exceptional vintage across the board. Shiraz, Grenache, and Mataro all delivered outstanding quality, with concentrated flavours and excellent structure.

One of the best Barossa vintages since 2010, with acidity and vibrancy that recall the benchmark 2010. Cool season Shiraz shows exceptional purity, freshness, and depth.

An excellent vintage with exceptional quality across every variety. Reds show great density of colour and flavour.

Despite being one of the lowest-yielding vintages on record (around 50% of average), quality reached the highest echelon. James Suckling called it the "best ever" Barossa vintage.

A vintage of very high quality but with seriously reduced yields. Early and condensed harvest due to heat and water stress.

An exceptional year for Barossa Shiraz, one of the benchmarks of the decade. Growing season rainfall was 50% below average, but the dry conditions produced deeply concentrated, structured wines with outstanding purity and cellaring potential.

Outstanding Shiraz year. Vintage was a month later than 2016, allowing extended hang time.

A good to excellent vintage for Shiraz despite low rainfall. Average to above-average yields for the first time after four below-average vintages.

A standout vintage for Barossa Shiraz with fantastic flavours and beautiful natural acids. Higher natural acidity and incredible concentration from smaller berry size.

A challenging vintage that tested winemakers. Extreme heat in January followed by the wettest February in 44 years.

The driest, earliest, and quickest vintage in memory. Below-average yields but excellent quality with balanced colours, flavours, and tannins.

A very good vintage with strong varietal typicality. Much better than the challenging 2011, with balanced fruit and structure.

An exceptional benchmark vintage for Barossa. Excellent quality particularly for Shiraz and Cabernet, with wines showing fresh concentration and ageworthy structure.

An extremely hot year that challenged many producers. The Barossa's oldest vines weathered the heat, producing ripe, bold wines.

A showcase vintage with a large crop of super-ripe wines. Both reds and whites were very successful.

An unexpectedly excellent vintage with a large crop. Good summer rains and mild ripening conditions produced wines of good natural acidity and low pH.

A very good vintage with Shiraz showing good colour and elegant flavours. Well-structured wines with balanced tannins.

An exceptional vintage with the perfect combination of ripeness and balanced acidity. Intensity and fruit definition comparable to the famous 1998, but with more elegant structure from finer tannins.

One of the biggest and best quality vintages on record. Flagship reds, particularly Shiraz, Cabernet, and Grenache, look exceptional.

One of the best Barossa vintages of the 1990s, ranking alongside 1990 and 1996. Exceptionally deep-coloured Shiraz with concentrated peppery, ripe fruit characters and very good tannin structure.