Australia loves shiraz, and for good reason. The red variety is grown in almost every corner of the country, is our biggest wine export and, most importantly, is delicious. Luckily for us, this popularity means we're spoilt for choice, whether you are looking for an easy, fresh red for an upcoming dinner, or you're looking for a stellar bottle to add to your cellar.
Below we have listed 10 wines ranging in rating, region, price and readiness, so there is bound to be a shiraz on the list that suits what you're looking for.
Make sure you click through to read their full review from our Halliday Tasting Team, or click the 'buy now' link if you want to learn more from the wineries themselves and make a purchase.
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Shiraz wines to try
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Kay Brothers
Block 6 Shiraz 2023
McLaren ValeThe iconic Block 6 comprises 1.5ha of vines planted in 1892. The last two vintages of Block 6 have been excellent, with this completing a podium finish. This sits side by side with the '21. Hard to split. Integration of oak is a thing. It’s present, providing some luxury adornment, but it meshes so well with the fruit. Blackberry and boysenberry, dried olive and preserved black cherry, salted red plum, struck iron, dark spices, the scent of rocky, hungry soils, cordite, star anise, bergamot tea. It’s just 13.5% alcohol, but it’s invested with flavour and detail. It feels like history, a little like a wine from another time, vividly alive in the present. -
Bondar Wines
Hope Springs Eternal Clarendon Shiraz 2024
McLaren ValeFrom the Hickinbotham vineyard, with these vines planted in 1971 to red soils studded with ironstone. It’s an elevated, relatively cool site and certified biodynamic. This was fermented mostly as whole bunches, with a long élevage of almost two years in an old, thick-walled demi-muid. Yes, just one, with 600 bottles produced. Dark plum, blackberry, concentrated yet savoury raspberry and preserved sour cherry, wild-fruited, agreeably tart in profile. There’s a compactness here, a finely packed spiciness, a graphitic and almost granitic mineral quality, dried herbs, tobacco and a twiggy snap in the background. Refinement reigns, like the grenache in the range, with time the key, though abundant air reveals layer after layer of subtle detail. A wine of real cellar potential. -
Laughing Jack
The Limited Two Single Vineyard Shiraz 2022
Barossa ValleyEstate grown from the Augustus hillside vineyard at Greenock, matured for 24 months in French and American oak hogsheads, 100% new. A powerful, deeply fruited shiraz. Deep crimson with unctuous blackberry, black cherry, cassis and blood plum fruits with hints of baking spices, cedar, licorice, ironstone, dark chocolate, blackforest cake, brandied fruits, vanilla pod and earth. Full bodied, with a thick-shouldered flow of black fruits, layered with spice and violet top notes. It has thick, silty tannin and a sustained finish that shows both balance and horsepower. -
Haselgrove Wines
The Cruth Shiraz 2024
McLaren ValeThis is compiled across sites, seeing French oak for 14 months. The premium shiraz trio from Haselgrove all come in weighty bottles, with this the heaviest, perhaps conveying the higher price, though not necessarily the heft of liquid, with a certain refinement on show. It’s still a powerful wine, wearing a robe of classy oak, a consistent theme of the trio, needing time, but the harmony of fruit composition is evident. Blackberry pastille, preserved damson plum, black cherry compote, allspice, star anise, clove, mocha, saltbush, bitumen, the tannins as much oak- as skin/seed-derived. Don’t drink this now; the quality is undeniable, but it is made with cellaring in mind. Honour that. -
Laughing Jack
Carl Albert Single Vineyard Shiraz 2022
Barossa ValleyEstate grown from the Carl Albert vineyard, the highest-altitude vineyard on Moppa Hill at almost 400m. Deep crimson with an opulent nose of rich blackberry, black cherry, cassis and damson plum fruits. Hints of baking spices, roast meats, licorice, dark chocolate, cedar, turned earth and olive tapenade. Full bodied, with plenty of horsepower and a core of unctuous graphite-edged black fruits. Thick fine-grained tannins cascade down. This has a powerful extended finish. Very impressive. -
Bannockburn Vineyards
1314 Shiraz 2025
GeelongMade from estate-grown fruit and matured in hogsheads (10% new). Just as good, if not better, than last year's impressive and very well-priced release. An impressive crimson purple colour. Aromas of dark fruits, freshly cracked black pepper, florals and spice all precede the richly flavoured, gently structured and very well-balanced palate. This is a wine that will look even better over the next four to six years. -
David Franz
Benjamin's Promise Shiraz 2021
Barossa ValleyA cracking Stone Well–sourced shiraz that shows a cavalcade of ripe satsuma plum, blackberry and black cherry fruit dusted with baking spices, pan juices, cedar, dark chocolate, blackforest cake, wood spice and violets. There's a fine, chalky tannin grip with a black cherry-skin acidity pushing the pure blackberry and macerated plums forward. The classic Barossan flavours stretch out long and true at the end. -
Bosward
Shiraz 2024
Barossa ValleyShiraz sourced from three vineyards around Tanunda and Bethany. Bright crimson with a bright core of doris plum, blueberry and boysenberry fruits with hints of brown spice, citrus blossom, ironstone, dark chocolate, licorice, panforte and earth. There is a juiciness to the fruit profile on the palate and a fruit purity born of that impressive '24 vintage. The fade is slow and harmonious with powdery tannin grip and energy to burn. These Bosward wines present some serious value for money. -
David Franz
H.P. Hydraulic Press Shiraz 2023
Barossa ValleyBright magenta/crimson with aromas of damson plum, blackberry, black cherry and blueberry fruits. Hints of baking spices, licorice, cedar, Old Gold chocolate, pan juices, olive tapenade, fruitcake, violets and earth. Full bodied, with unctuous black and dark fruits, fine, chalky tannins and a sweep of black cherry-skin acidity on the sustained finish. -
Pepperjack
The Rare Find Shiraz 2024
Barossa ValleyDeep magenta/crimson with aromas of rich blackberry, blueberry and damson plum, hints of oak spice, licorice, violets, cedar, black olives, dark chocolate, roasting meats and earth. Full bodied, with glossy fruit and a thick roll of cassis across the palate, fine-grained tannins and a black cherry and blackberry pastille flourish on the persistent finish.
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