Shaw + Smith began over a long lunch in 1989 when cousins Martin Shaw and Michael Hill Smith decided to realise a long-held dream to make wine together. Their vision remains to make exciting, refined wines, exclusively from the Adelaide Hills, that rank among Australia’s best. The wines are made from a number of sites throughout the Adelaide Hills. They specialise in grape varieties suited to the cooler climate, namely Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Shiraz.

"This is a spicy, cool-climate expression of Syrah, and it nails the stylistic brief. This is structural and firm, but it manages the tannins with a splay of delicate fruit stretched out across them and soars across the long finish. Adam Wadewitz is a very talented winemaker, and so the quality of this "new" release range of single-vineyard wines came as no surprise."

94+/100pts Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate