Quandong Farm Shiraz 2024

2024 Shiraz, McLaren Vale, South Australia

100% Single Vineyard Shiraz. 12 months in French oak. Colour: Hot flush. Aroma: Musk, boysenberry, and purple fruit straps, accented by fragrant notes of juniper, rosemary blooms, and a hint of sandalwood incense. Palate: Boysenberry, plum, and black cherry mingling with hints of savory spice and a subtle earthiness. Cellar: 20 years.

$35.00

Description

Quandong Farm Shiraz is a single vineyard wine that aims to highlight the intensity and brightness of fruit grown using biodynamic techniques. Our farming practices are designed to produce wines of intensity, but also with layers of texture, flavour and interest for the consumer. We think this wine exhibits these characteristics and provides both concentration and flavour and a certain delicacy, rather than simple raw power.

Awards and Accolades

Stuart Knox

92 / 100

Deep and dense ruby colour, purple tints into the rim. Mulburry preserve and violets on the nose. Ripeblue and red berry fruits, full bodied with sweet spices and a peppery lift across the middle. Lovely length, stays bright and drying at the finish.

1st May 2025

Halliday

95 / 100

“Off '96-planted vines on sand, limestone and some Pirramimma sandstone; 40% whole bunch, layered with destemmed berries; 10 months in new and older French oak. Such an individual expression in the Paxton shiraz suite, with the bunches playing a lead role in that, gifting a cooler, spicier profile, smoky and twiggy, with notes of coal and tar. Brambly red berries, preserved plum, tapenade and dried herbs populate the lightly saline palate, the middle swelling in fruit sweetness, but not weight, corralled by a detailed, cocoa-dusted mesh of skin, stem and oak tannin. Tremendous value.”

29th April 2025

Details

RegionMcLaren Vale, South Australia
Vintage2024
TypeRed Wine
VarietyShiraz
Variety CompositionOrganic | Biodynamic
Vegan Friendly✔
Organic Wine✔
Volume750ml
Alcohol Volume14%
pH3.73
Standard Drinks8.3
Acidity5.21
Residual Sugar2.9
ClosureScrewCap
Vintage NotesLow and slow. The 2023 growing season was a time for viticulturalists to show off their impressive skills. From a cold and wet, seemingly never-ending winter to a Spring which seemed like it was still winter, a long, cool Summer which seemed like Spring, challenges were abound. Numerous climatic challenges including cool and windy weather during flowering, one of the wettest Springs for 30 years and even more windy weather in Summer meant that crops were small but our organic and biodynamic farming methods paid off — our vines showed incredible resilience to whatever came their way. A season that was around three weeks late on average and had a much slower ripening period means that 2023 wines show great acid, complex layers of delicate flavours, lightness, brightness, and longevity.
Tasting Notes[Paxton 2023 Quandong Shiraz.pdf](https://secure.withwine.com/Public/File?fileName=upload%2f1668%2fproduct%2fQT97eizSKkGO0rrEce3aZA.pdf&download=False)
ColourCrushed Velvet
BouquetLively and layered. Up front: licorice allsorts, purple sherbet, and blackcurrant, followed by deeper notes of dried plum skin, cardamom, and a savoury edge of tarragon, ripe stems, and smokehouse. It’s aromatic but grounded—sweet, spicy, and just a little wild.
PalateBright and focused with plenty of drive. There’s an immediate juicy lift, but the wine quickly reveals its depth—dark fruit, spice, and a gentle, earthy pull. Tannins are grainy yet smooth, with a kind of linen-like grip that gives shape without heaviness. It finishes brooding but clean, with tension, energy, and a lot of quiet confidence.
Peak Drinking / Cellaring PotentialGOOD: Now - BETTER: 2027 - MAX: 2038
VinificationGrapes were hand picked and selector harvested at optimum flavour and sugar equilibrium. 40% was used as whole bunches while the remainder was delicately destemmed and fermented using 100% indigenous (wild) yeast. The small batch open ferments were carefully plunged and pumped over for 10-15 days to extract colour, flavour and tannin structure, then pressed to new and mature French oak puncheons, where they were nurtured for 12 months prior to blending and bottling.
WinemakerAshleigh Seymour
Music MatchNew Person, Same Old Mistakes—Tame Impala

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