SCHILD ESTATE BEN SCHILD SINGLE VINEYARD SHIRAZ 2021

Gold Medal – Global Syrah Masters 2024

Winery notes (2021 Vintage)
"Deep ruby, purple in colour. Aromatically the wine quickly shows intense but bright dark berry fruit notes with a hint of inviting creaminess and spice around the edges. On the palate a smooth mouth-filling attack of layered blood plums, blackcurrant and dark chocolate notes so often seen in this wine across vintages appears where it is surrounded by a fine tannin frame.

Harvested and then crushed into traditional open top fermenters. The wine undergoes pre-fermentation cold soak and is then either gently pumped over to obtain optimal colour and retain complex fruit flavours. Additional post fermentation maceration usually occurs before the wine is drained and pressed to barrel. Free run and pressings are usually kept separate and a combination of new and aged oak barrels are used for a maturation of between 18-24 months. The wine is then blended from a combination of single vineyard shiraz that has been aged separately in French, American and Hungarian Oak."

95/100 Dave Brookes, James Halliday's Wine Companion (2021 Vintage)
"There's a real creaminess that I like here. It's not an oak creaminess, more so a plum and blueberry cream with underlying hints of dark-chocolate-dipped cherries, blackforest cake, vanillin oak, panforte, olive tapenade, violets and earth. Luscious and mouth-filling with fine tannins and a velvety flow at the back end. It's a lovely contemporary Barossa shiraz."

5 Stars & 95/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, March 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"Instantly appealing with blackberry, vanillin oak, clove, game and cocoa aromas, it's plump and opulent in the mouth with plush texture backed by loads of silky tannins, finishing robust and sturdy with seductive complexity. At its best: now to 2036."

94/100 Ken Gargett, WinePilot.com, January 2025 (2021 Vintage)
"For me, this is one of the absolute stars of the Schild range and might just be the best value they offer, especially coming from such a thrilling vintage. Inky purple colour here, this is plush and generous, brimming over with black fruits, plums, dry herbs, cassis and chocolate. There is well-integrated oak evident and the palate offers a move to prunes. A wine of seduction with very silky tannins, with just the merest hint of chalkiness, and impressive length. This is going to excite wine lovers for at least the next eight to twelve years."

94/100 Ray Jordan, WinePilot.com, January 2025 (2021 Vintage)
"Starts with an engaging aroma of blackberry, dark chocolate and allspice. The sumptuous palate is bright and vibrant with tremendous juicy ripe fruits on display. The slightly chewy chalky tannins sit perfectly while the mix of oak has been precisely chosen. Excellent wine."