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Review	Product Name	Vintage	Rating	Date Sort ascending	Favorite
Shaw + Smith - Forbes	M3 Chardonnay	2017		Sep-2020
Review “Chardonnay suits autumn weather as Pinot Gris suits the dog days of summer. The medium-body expression of this South Australian variety presents intense stone fruit and a leveling oak that could be enjoyed campside after a day of hiking through fall foliage. Pinot Noir drinkers may find themselves swapping out their light red go-to around this time of year for this structured Chardonnay.”
Shaw + Smith - Decanter	M3 Chardonnay	2019	96	Aug-2020
Review “The nose presents a strong and compelling argument: firm white peach, pretty lemon blossom, a whiff of charred oak and a puff of graphite lurking beneath struck flint. Strikingly reminiscent of Penfolds' Bin Reserve Bin A, it helps define a new high-watermark for Adelaide Hills Chardonnay. With a slender, nimble palate that is deceptively long, its clean persistent flavours and subtle complexity leaves you contemplative long after the glass is empty.”
Shaw + Smith - Decanter	Pinot Noir	2018	97	Aug-2020
Review “An exciting lean and lively nose signals this is the type of taut, edgy Pinot Noir that the Adelaide Hills has struggled to capture, despite the region being heavily planted to the variety. This is a model of winemaking restraint, allowing the vineyard to speak, with fleshy cherry and hint of tart mandarin providing a comforting tone, but its firm acidity and ripe, stalky grip ensuring good discipline is maintained in the shape and structure of a svelte flavour profile.”
Shaw + Smith - Decanter	Shiraz	2018	94	Aug-2020
Review “Elegant Shiraz is often code for a modest, subdued wine, but in this instance it’s about capturing harmony and balance. Bright flavour is smartly contained within a seamless body, carefully made to measure. A clean acid line down the spine ensures that no jagged edges poke out. Dark plum and cherry notes flit amongst the blackberry and rhubarb. It’s a smooth, confident customer.”
Shaw + Smith - Decanter	Sauvignon Blanc	2020	93	Aug-2020
Review “The familiar Shaw + Smith take on clean, lean Sauvignon Blanc continues to confidently champion a distinctive Adelaide Hills style rather than chase other more overt and pungent examples. The nose is full and ripe, more zesty grapefruit than gooseberry, with the slightest hint of cut lawn. The body is too slim to slide into tropical fruit territory, with its firm acidic spine keeping the citrus accent sharp and crisp. Friendly and self-assured, it’s a worthy dinner table companion.”
Shaw + Smith - James Halliday	Sauvignon Blanc	2019	95	Aug-2020
Review “Light straw-quartz hue. Not the easiest of vintages, but you'd never know it given the intensity, the resonance and length of this vibrant, juicy wine. The 30th vintage, and I buy the back label comment 'the wine is better now than at any time in our 30 years'.” (Best of Sauvignon Blanc, 2021 Halliday Wine Companion Awards)
Shaw + Smith - James Halliday	M3 Chardonnay - 2018	2018	98	Aug-2020
Review “A beautifully poised wine, balance and elegance inevitably part of the equation. There is a purity to the drive of the fruit that makes recitation of what are usual stages of vinification unnecessary. It's the quality of the fruit, the attention to detail and the cumulated decades of experience that make this wine so special.” (Best of Chardonnay, 2021 Halliday Wine Companion Awards)
Shaw + Smith - Wine Enthusiast	Pinot Noir	2017	93	Aug-2020
Review “You can tell straight away that this wine, with its translucent cherry hue, will be bright and bouncy. It smells like freshly squeezed cherry and strawberry juice, underscored by cinnamon stick, flowers and minerals. The palate is as light and fresh as the color and aroma suggest. The red berry flavors crunch and crackly amid a silky texture and gentle tug of tannins. Light, bright and a little stalky at the finish, this is a crowd-pleaser of a Pinot to be drunk fairly young and slightly chilled.” (Editors' Choice)
Shaw + Smith - Australian Wine Review	Pinot Noir	2019	94	Jul-2020
Review “Stylistically, this is a wine that has moved from bold and dry red-esque, to lean and underdone and now with the Shaw + Smith Pinot Noir 2019 it has finally hit Goldilocks mode (ie just right). Crucially, this is largely Lenswood fruit, sourced from the S + S vineyard planted in 1999. From the first aromatic flicker of gentle red fruit this seems right. It’s vinous, varietal and well balanced, all rhubarb, redcurranf and then a flicker of vanilla oak before plenty of acidity. Lithe. Beautifully formed. Correct acidity. It’s comfortably still Hills Pinot, complete with the mid palate fruit exuberance. And it all makes for a genuinely enjoyable wine that I could easily finish a bottle of.”
Shaw + Smith - The Drunken Cyclist	Pinot Noir	2017	91-93	Jul-2020
Review “Very light in the glass, almost translucent, with aromas of cranberry, dried cherry, and dusty earth. Delightful on the palate: quite tart with lovely fruit, although reserved, particularly when compared to juicy fruit-driven Pinots from, say, the Russian River Valley. In fact, this is much more reminiscent of a French Pinot than any from the Golden State (California), not from Burgundy but from the Loire Valley (Sancerre).”

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