Awards & Reviews
2021 vintage
Sourced from vines planted in 1988 on sandy loam soils over a red clay base, the wine is elevaged for 23 months in seasoned French oak vats and puncheons. This is a total feast for the senses and a truly special wine. What hits you first is ripe mulberries and stewed blackberries then sun warmed potting soil, Rosella flowers in syrup and rose bud. Mocha, cinnamon and powdered nutmeg with a recurring blue fruit or violet character that swings on by and keeps luring you in. This 2021 is only beginning to hit its straps, the fruit is pure and the earth tones are grounding. The palate is effortless and acidity soars like an eagle continuing to carry the flavours way beyond the hills. Magnifique. Drink now or cellar for a further 5 years. Pair with rabbit stew or slowed cooked wallaby tail.
96 points – Shanteh Wale
A classic fire pit wine from the Barossa’s Yelland & Papps. Seeing 23 months in third use French oak, head this way if you adore an earthy, dense and concentrated Shiraz.
This single vineyard wine comes from the Barossa sub-region of Greenock. The 1.6 hectare vineyard is planted on sandy loam over red clay.
Berry compote and blueberries are the order of the day on opening. The constant stream of plummy fruit through the mid-palate is never far away. Gentle spices are well-placed and build a moreish momentum. That unashamed earthiness folds into baked chocolate torte with a Dutch cocoa highlight. Fine Christmas cake spices calmly caress on exit with dusty and powdery tannins coating the mouth on a sustained finish. This is a smart wine.
Drink to eight years.
-Qwine
92/100
‘A vibrant, dark red in the glass, really youthful. Dark fruited aromas of plum, mulberry, mocha, sweet spice and charry oak. Flavours are rich, fleshy and mouth-filling, all dark, brooding fruit, spice and nutty oak. Tannins are firm and shapely and the acidity has brightness and kick, keeping the plush fruit in check’
09 JUL 2023
95/100 2023–2038
- Aaron Brasher The Real Review
2020 vintage
Shiraz sourced from David Materne’s block in Greenock in the western Barossa. Wild fermented, basket pressed and matured in French oak vats for 24 months. Notes of plush satsuma plum, black cherry and summer berry fruits along with hints of baking spices, licorice, dark chocolate and spicy French oak. Impressive in its fruit depth, while retaining a sense of freshness and vitality, finishing long with a bloom of plum and blueberry fruits cut through with spice. Lovely.
Dave Brookes
Halliday Rating 95/100
Published 02 February 2023
2020 vintage
Medium-deep crimson. Pure blackberry pastille, hint winter green aromas with vanilla notes. Medimum-weighted wine with attractive blackberry pastille blackcurrant fruits, fine lacy dry, touch al dente tannins and some savoury notes. Finishes pippy firm with sappy / chinotto notes. Bittersweet style. Now till 2028
91 points The Vintage Journal Barossa Guide 2023. Andrew Caillard and Angus Hughson.
Vineyard Info
The fruit for our Devote Shiraz comes from the beautiful western Barossa wine region of Greenock.
David Materne is again our man. We’ve sourced grapes from David for many years and the Shiraz comes from his ‘House Block’ on Victor Road.
It was originally owned by the Victor family before being planted by Sir Condor Lauke in the 1960’s and purchased by the Materne’s in 2007.
The House Block vineyard lies around 300 metres above sea level, planted on mixed loam over red clays dotted with ironstone and the sub-region only receives around 500mm of rain in an average year.
