Standish - Shiraz Lamella 2022 (750ml)

Price: $179.99

Producer	Standish
Country	Australia
Region	South Australia
Varietal	Shiraz
Vintage	2022
Sku	205325
Size	750ml

Spicy and dark-fruited aromas of blueberries, mulberries, wild blackberries, violets and graphite on the nose. The palate is full-bodied with firmly integrated tannins and bright acidity, showing notes of blood plums, mocha, cassia bark, cured meat, dried herbs and ferric earth. The 100% whole-cluster fermentation gives it very firm tannins that will integrate nicely over time and come into balance.

Standish Description

If there is one winemaker from Australia to be drinking right now it’s Dan Standish, his wines are exceptional. So pure, seductive and so much going on. You can easily make a whole evening out of just opening the wines and watching them evolve. Let us tell you more about them!

Founded by the visionary winemaker Dan Standish, this esteemed winery has redefined the boundaries of Australian winemaking, creating exceptional wines that captivate the senses and push the limits of what is possible. Standish is a 6th generation Barossan who honed his craft at the legendary Torbreck winery in Australia. Seeking to elevate his winemaking skills to new heights, Standish embarked on a global quest for knowledge and inspiration. From the Rhone Valley to Napa and beyond, he absorbed the wisdom of the greatest winemakers, letting their expertise influence his own unique winemaking philosophy.

Across the board, the winemaking is uniform for the range: grapes are handpicked and wild fermented in open-top fermenters, followed by an 18-22 month aging period in French oak barrels from four rotating coopers. This method is carefully chosen to highlight the vineyard's own voice over the signature of the cooper, allowing the unique characteristics of each season to be expressed through the oak.

The last few vintages the wines have been getting better and better and after the hype of the 2021 vintage being a classic vintage, it was going to be hard for the 2022s to surpass them, but surpass them they have. Erin Larkin writes:

“The 2022 season in Barossa was an impressive follow on from the excellent 2021 vintage, and the wines so far have shown themselves to be balanced, long and harmonious. In the context of the Standish wines, I have never seen them looking better on release. While previous seasons have here and there surpassed my lofty expectations of greatness form this producer (CC: 2021 Schubert's Theorem), the 2022 release seems to me to be everything that I expected of the 2021 collection.”

Each wine has its own personality which we have written about below on a per wine basis. To give you an opportunity to taste each of the different personalities of the wines, we have listed them as singles and we highly recommend buying at least one bottle of each.

Wine Advocate: 100 Points

The 2022 Lamella Shiraz has a little secret held within, and it's one not noted on the label. Within this cuvée, is just two barrels of fruit from the Stonegarden Vineyard, the original Lamella Vineyard, before the current Huttonvale Farm. Stonegarden was planted in the Eden Valley in the middle 1800s and is a historic site. The wine rises with Chinotto and blood orange, black tea and pressed flowers. It is, in its quiet way, kaleidoscopic and mottled ... it does not stay still, it gently moves across the palate like sunlight over the course of a day. The long finish speaks of raspberry pip and sandalwood, pomegranate, Boscobel rose and even the softest suggestion of scraped vanilla pod. If you have the benefit of time, I would recommend tasting this on both day one and day two. As I see it, day two has all of the complexity of day one, with the added seamlessness and silk that only time can bring. This is the most alluring Lamella I can recall ever tasting on release, despite many previous releases' flirtation with perfection. 100% whole bunch. 14.9% alcohol, sealed under natural cork and wax.