Winestate Magazine

BEST OF A Beautiful Bunch

Each year Winestate conducts its annual judging of premium shiraz and syrah wines in various price categories. Australia is the leading producer of shiraz, making up around 20% of all wines produced.

We normally like to add imported wines for diversity but this year it was very difficult to source these with freight issues and lack of supply. This also combined with local issues which resulted in a slimmed down version of our usual blockbuster efforts.

However, we are pleased to report a solid judging of 319 wines and importantly these represented the full gamut of low to high prices thereby offering recommendations for all buyers.

As well as the Category Winners we produced a Top Ten list based on the overall points scored by the individual judges. All of these

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