The Last Stand Shiraz, Victoria, Australia, 2024

Grape: 100% Shiraz, lightly oaked

Producer Tasting Note:

Premium quality fruit and mature vines have produced a wine with great balance, length and fruit intensity. This attractively fruity Shiraz in a cooler-climate style has concentrated mulberry and soft, plummy fruit flavours and smooth, savoury tannins. Warm, soft and lusciously lush, this is a black and sultry Shiraz with a salty finish. A wine which is developing beautifully.

Winemaking: This Shiraz is sourced from ancient Victorian soils in order to achieve a wine with greater finesse, purity and structure as well as typical eucalypt flavours and saline finish associated with the area. Picked at night and crushed within an hour of picking before being sent to the fermentation tanks. The Shiraz grapes were fermented in temperature-controlled tanks maintained at 22 - 25ºC to avoid extracting any harsh tannins, with the fermentations pumped over to extract good colour. 20% of the final blend is barrel aged.

Quintessentially Australian, this range offers consistent quality, hugely appealing, commercial wine styles that have gained a loyal following. Reflecting Boutinot's skill and experience in seeking out the very best of Australia, these wines capture ideal climatic conditions and pure varietal definition. Winemaker Samantha Bailey brings her signature palate and decades of experience to finessing these components into the loveliest Boutinot expressions of Oz.

Food Match: Drink with grilled lamb chops, barbecued chicken and spicy sausages