Estate Grown Shiraz
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 3–12 years from the vintage, though exceptional vintages can cellar gracefully for up to 15 years.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Slow-roasted lamb shoulder, grilled ribeye steak, earthy wild mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
Tyrrell's Estate Grown Shiraz represents the quintessential medium-bodied style of the historic Hunter Valley, crafted from vines grown on the estate's prized alluvial flat and red volcanic clay soils. This wine is a tribute to the Tyrrell family's deep-rooted history in Pokolbin, where they have farmed since 1858. Unlike the heavier, high-alcohol Shiraz styles found in warmer Australian regions, this estate bottling emphasizes elegance, bright red fruit, and savory complexity. Fermented in open-top fermenters and aged in a combination of large, older French oak casks and foudres, it preserves the bright primary fruit and distinctive earthy, leathery undertones characteristic of classic Hunter Shiraz. It is a wine steeped in the heritage of one of Australia's founding wine families, reflecting a traditional, hands-off winemaking philosophy.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1858 by English immigrant Edward Tyrrell, Tyrrell's is one of Australia's founding wine dynasties and a cornerstone member of Australia's First Families of Wine. Nestled beneath the Brokenback Range in the Pokolbin subdistrict of the Hunter Valley, the estate oversees some of the world's rarest own-rooted heritage vineyards, notably the Sacred Sites planted as early as 1867 and 1879. Viticulture focuses on sustainable stewardship over ancient alluvial flats and weathered clay loams under a warm, maritime-influenced sub-tropical microclimate. The winemaking philosophy balances traditional techniques, neutral oak, and minimal intervention to preserve purity, vitality, and sense of place. Tyrrell's benchmark portfolio is internationally celebrated for Vat 1 Hunter Semillon—an austere, unwooded white renowned for its transformative longevity—alongside Vat 47 Chardonnay, widely credited with pioneering commercial Australian Chardonnay, and the singular, medium-bodied Old Patch and Vat 9 Shirazes.
🍇 Grapes
Shiraz
🍷 ABV
13% - 13.5%