Grant Burge's flagship shiraz offering has built a loyal base of fans and has an enviable pedigree of cellaring like a champion. It's no wallflower. It's full bodied, and big and bold, with a dark concentration of fruit, a proliferation of spicy oak and hefty tannins and a real sense of horsepower ticking away under the hood. The 2019 model perhaps has a little more tooth to the tannins, but it's all you expect from a wine of its reputation. Powerful and built in the traditional style.

Grant Burge Meshach Shiraz, Barossa 2019

The Grant Burge brand flagship red, set deeply with impressive Shiraz fruit, dark, powerful though extremely well-behaved from end to end. It’s all captured in classy French oak – the aromatics are cedar laden while still allowing bursts of crimson plum and pomegranate to rise above the sensitively structured foundations, quite fine in the tannin grip, and enough retained acidity to keep the palate’s energy levels sustained. Everything neatly entwined and connected. Lots to love about this Meshach right now, as it’s drinking comfortably on opening, and history suggests it also has a long-life expectancy.

I was really looking forward to seeing this wine, from a vintage as strong as 2021. It's certainly got the Meshach horsepower and pure cedar-infused, black-fruited grunt that you'd expect from its bloodline. The tannin profile is finer, more compact and less bossy than I expected, the acidity, appley and mineral-laden and there is an impressive length of flavour. Dare I say it is probably a more 'elegant' Meshach in the scheme of things, and it is certainly one that will age for a good while.

Grant Burge Meshach Shiraz, Barossa 2021

Packed with attitude exuding dense black fruit, tar and liquorice with an exciting gravelly mineral quality which lifts and sustains. Powerful and protruding with a rich chocolate finish.

Grant Burge Meshach Shiraz, Barossa 2022