What you need to know about premium Australian Shiraz - hero video - (bc) -lx
The majority of Australian Shiraz offer value for money. Then there are some that cost you a grand. CNA Luxury explains why.
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The very first Australian wine you drank would have been a Shiraz, the full-bodied red wine with medium acidity that wraps your palate like a plush,
It is the most widely planted variety in the country, with around 40, 000 hectares under vine. While the grape can be found in almost every Australian wine region, the Barossa in South Australia remains its spiritual home — more than the 7,800 hectares are devoted to Shiraz.
Australian Shiraz is available in a wide range of prices, from your S$10 supermarket bargain to your S$1,000 superstar bottling. The latter includes labels like Penfolds Grange and Henschke, names that are synonymous with premium Shirazes. They are also Australia’s most collectable wines; old and rare vintages can command high prices at auctions.
A refrain I hear whenever I mention a premium Aussie Shiraz is, "For such a price, I can get a Bordeaux First Growth". There is an entrenched (and outdated) idea that New World wines should always be cheaper than their Old World counterparts. The lack of a quality hierarchy classification for Aussie wines also means the buyer — unless he is well-versed in Australian wine — won’t easily understand why a wine costs 10 times more than another.
