St Hallett Faith Shiraz 2023

St Hallett has a well-developed reputation with seriously elite Barossa Shiraz, so how does its more commercial side stack up? Note the labelling refers to the wider Barossa (zone), which allows tapping into Eden Valley if needed, though this isn’t specified on the bottle in this instance. Traditionally it has been from the central and northern districts of the Valley – St Hallett’s philosophy has been to uncover how the region’s sub districts bring different characteristic to the fore. This ever popular iteration of Barossa Shiraz has an attractive spiced plum note to the nose, with encouraging depth, peak-ripe fruit with supportive acidity swelling in the mouth and a fine duct-coating of earthy tannins. A crowd pleaser with regional and varietal integrity.

Tony Love

Journalist at Winepilot

Tony is best known for his 10 years as News Corp’s National Wine Writer, with weekly columns in major metropolitan mastheads throughout Australia including The Adelaide Advertiser, The Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Melbourne Herald Sun. He continues to write feature articles and columns for all the major Australian wine media publications. Tony has also worked as a restaurant reviewer, section editor, book editor, digital content provider, journalism teacher and was named Wine Communicators of Australia 2018 Legend of the Vine (SA). Find out more about Tony at tonylove.com.au

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