This winery is recognisable from the second you get an eye on the bottles, and for good reason. Pirathon has been at the fore of producing those styles Aussies love from reds out of the valley. The dense fruit profile has been balanced by 18 months in a variety of American, French and Hungarian oak barrels. Dark fruits such as plums and blackberries step forward and there’s plenty of secondary notes such as cedar, pastille and chocolate. If Barossa shiraz is your jam (but not too jammy of course), then you can turn to this number to give you the happiness you seek.