Shiraz Wines

The Cracka team get pumped when we discover wines of authenticity and we love the Teusner philosophy of offering exceptional wines at affordable prices from select vineyards within the Barossa Valley. One taste of the Riebke and you’ll feel like ...

Marmaduke is named after marmalade, the lovely fruit based spread that works great on toast. Actually, this wine is named after Marmaduke Terry, one of the first settlers of the Margaret River region who farmed at Wallcliffe on the banks of Mar...

A multi-regional blend, this is such a pleasurable bargain wine. It's simple and earthy and flavoursome, the perfect sort of medium bodied wine for drinking without thinking and enjoying just how good it is for the price. 5 stars for value!

This wine is a blend of 87 per cent Shiraz and 13 per cent Cabernet Sauvignon and created a sensation when it won gold and topped its class at the Gault-Millau Wine Olympiad in Paris in 1979, beating the best Rhone Valley wines. It also won a trop...

Some of the best Shiraz in Australia originated from the Hunter and that’s what brought Robin Tedder to the Valley in 1988. Robin is one of the few Masters of Wine in Australia so it’s fair to say he knows what constitutes a great tasting wine. Th...

The dense purple-coloured 2009 Shiraz, The Sentinel, shows a splendid aromatic array of smoke, game, pepper, blueberry, and black cherry. This is followed by a full-bodied, lustrous, layered Shiraz with concentrated flavours, depth, and a long, fr...

Would you like a handpicked wine? Well, that’s the theory behind this innovative label, it pairs a winemaker and their chosen region, with their varietal know how. In this example it’s one of the legends of the Barossa, Rolf Binder working his mag...

The 2010 Redman Shiraz is made from grapes grown on forty five year old, hand pruned vines from the Redman family vineyards in the heart of Coonawarra. Appearance: Medium to dark red with some purple tints. Nose: Pepper and spice fruit nose ...

Appearance: Deep ruby with violet hues. Nose: Concentrated ripe wild blackberry, sweet spice and tapenade notes. Palate: Rich with blackberry and plums perfectly balanced by firm and persistent tannins. Cellaring: Drink now or cellar f...

Deep purple in colour, with an intense aroma of dark fruits and spice, the 2012 McPherson Shiraz expresses true varietal character. With subtly integrated American Oak balanced with ripe plums and blackberries, this wine has excellent structure...

Only produced in the very best years, this is one of the 'flagship' wines of Bethany. It's fully loaded with ripe black cherry fruit, and has a charcoal, earthiness about it too. There is plenty of toasty oak in the mix along with balanced tannins...

From a very good year in the Barossa Valley comes this generously styled shiraz. Ripe black fruits and plums tease the senses, along with a good lick of vanilla and chocolate oak. The palate is quite plummy with some toasty oak and savoury aged ch...

For the Barossa Valley, this is quite an elegant Shiraz compared to the super-ripe, alcohol-fuelled wines we all know and some still love. Grown in the foothills of the Barossa on a cooler vineyard site, This wine shows some plummy and black fruit...

Bethany is one of the most beautiful and slightly cooler Barossa regions with Bethany Wines having a cellar door that is well worth the visit for its cracking views alone. Better still the wines are good to match with this a delicious mid-wei...

Intensely aromatic displaying plums, blackcurrant, lifted savoury oak with velvety tannins and exceptional length.

Sacred Hill was inspired by the name given by a local hermit to the low rocky outcrop that overlooks the Riverina plain. The hermit, who now has almost mythical status in the region, inhabited a cave in the hillside for many years. Sacred Hill has...

Grampians Shiraz is not hard to like really, the plum-essence rich style really rather addictive. Here we see it in a mid-weight form, the flavours not OTT, but thoroughly satisfying in their purple richness. It's hardly a tannic wine though, more...

All about fruit - that is the message with this red, the juiciness apparently for all to see. McLaren juiciness at that, bounding with lots of generous flavours. Lovely.

Named after the lot number of the original McLaren Vale vineyard, section 353 commemorates the site where early founders FH Edwards & WB Chaffey first began their partnership. French oak maturation delivers a rich complex wine with fine tannins ye...

The powerful palate from the start hits with luscious sweet blackcurrant fruit, leading into the tight elegant structure which enfolds creamy and toasty layers. The long chewy tannins vie with the flavours of caramel, mocha and wood fired oven ...