SPINIFEX BÊTE NOIR SHIRAZ 2022

A value sweet spot for incredible Barossa Shiraz from a cult producer. Seen as the baby brother to the outstanding La Maline, this 'black beast' is satisfyingly deep and complex, so it offers a good amount of the power and dimension of more expensive wines. A blend of old-vine Barossa Shiraz and Eden Valley Shiraz sourced from seven different small family vineyards. Vine age here is between 25 and 120 years, with 60 years the average across the blend. A richly satisfying and harmonious food wine for the price, the Bete Noir is exceptional value.

95/100 Dave Brooks, James Halliday's Wine Companion (2022 Vintage)
"Deeply coloured and one of the broodier examples of Peter's wines with deep, wonderfully pure blackberry, black cherry and Doris plum fruits, cut with clove, bay leaf, crushed rock, dark chocolate bullets, black tea, meadow herbs, olive tapenade and roast meats. Purely fruited with a crushed rock savouriness, great length of flavour and a bright seam of acidity that lifts everything up on the finish."

94/100 Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, June 2024 (2022 Vintage)
"This is a Barossa Shiraz for all-comers. It’s bold, rich and flavoursome but it’s also complex and tannic. It gives and it gets. It tastes of peanut shells and saturated plums, fragrant herbs, raisins, purple flowers, a ferrous note and red licorice. It carries a keen spread of tannin but this tannin is drenched in fruit flavour. In short, it delivers lashings of flavour in serious style."