100 best Australian Wines 2009

1st January, 1990

Matthew Jukes

Jester Shiraz has so much swagger and panache in ‘07 it is frankly baffling. For an everyday price you can experience an extraordinarily well-honed red with valid delusions of grandeur, because this wine is made from the off-cuts of the likes of Savitar and GAM and it damn well tastes like it, too.

Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

1st January, 1990

Dr J Miller, 91 points

Great Value Australian Wines

The 2007 Jester Shiraz is dark ruby/purple-coloured with an alluring perfume of mineral, earth notes, blueberry, black cherry, and blackberry. Smooth-textured, ripe, and intensely flavoured, the wine conceals enough structure to evolve for 4-6 years. The finish is lengthy and pure. I was also shown the 2002 Jester Shiraz and, I know this will be hard to believe, at age six it tastes like a small-scaled version of Guigal’s La Landonne.