Seppelt St. Peters Grampians Shiraz 2022 | $80 FREE DELIVERY

Released in small quantities and only in exceptional years, St Peters is Seppelt’ s flagship shiraz, testimony to the distinctive style and pedigree of Grampians shiraz. The lineage of this iconic wine dates back to 1964, when ‘great western hermitage’, as it was then known, was first made. Since 1998 this wine has been called St Peters in honour of the first vineyard planted in the region.

Today, St Peters is sourced from the finest and most intense fruit from the best blocks of our great western vineyard. In vintage 2021, this included select parcels from the bass Arrawatta and imperial blocks. It is a powerful and seductive expression of Shiraz from the Great Western region with extraordinary cellaring potential of 50 years or more. This wine is classified ‘excellent’ by Langton’s in its classification of Australian wine VII.

NOSE
A fragrant blend of blackberry and blueberry fruit, licorice, violets, bay-leaf and spice are further complexed by a subtle flint and cordite nuance.
PALATE
A wine of incredible power, line and finesse that belies its medium body. Upfront silky blackberry and blueberry fruit marries with black pepper, river rock and spicy black olive, complementing subtle mineral gunflint notes and charry oak. Regional graphite tannins focus the wine and provide a framework on which it will comfortably age and develop in the decades to come.
VINEYARD REGION
Great Western, Grampians
VINEYARD CONDITIONS
The Grampians experienced above average rainfall across the growing season with particularly large rainfalls occurring in January. This pushed out the typical ripening window and combined with unseasonably cool and dry ripening conditions in February and March, allowed for slow and steady flavour development in the fruit. Despite smaller tonnes, in part due to hail damage early in the season, quality in 2022 was excellent and saw superb, regionally definitive wines produced.