Standish 2022: A Perfect Vintage
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2024
- The 2022 season in Barossa was an impressive follow on from the excellent 2021 vintage, and the wines so far have shown themselves to be balanced, long and harmonious. In the context of the Standish wines, I have never seen them looking better on release. While previous seasons have here and there surpassed my lofty expectations of greatness form this producer (CC: 2021 Schubert's Theorem), the 2022 release seems to me to be everything that I expected of the 2021 collection. See what you think... At the time of publishing mine are still in the post on the way over to me in Perth, I know our friends in the Uk have already received theirs (lucky you). Have you opened any of your 2022's yet? If so, a penny for your thoughts!
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0:00 - Intro. Recap of visit to the Standish winery in Barossa, April 2024. Vintage 2022 overview.
03:39 - 2022 The Relic Shiraz Viognier, Krondorf 14.9% alcohol
06:01 - 2022 Standish, Greenock 14.9% alcohol
09:07 - 2022 Schubert's Theorem, Marananga 14.9% alcohol
11:51 - 2022 Lamella, Eden Valley 14.9% alcohol
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Finally you're back again :) One of the highlights of the year is when you try Dan Standish wines, great review as always. Have been drinking Standish 2019 the last week, and the fifth day was the best day. But I must say my favorite wines at the moment are Bekkers, especially their Grenache, 2018 is absolutely amazing right now. I hope to see you soon again, thanks Erin!
The Bekkers are very talented (and lovely) people! Making great wines in McLaren, I agree. Thanks for watching!
So excited to see you made this video. Already have one of each pre-ordered, and very glad I took up the opportunity to do so.
Thanks for watching! I tend to buy the lot each vintage. I don’t like gaps in my verticals and the wines morph and change over time so it seems a shame to put all the eggs in one basket and just load up on one or two…
Thanks Erin, I'd been looking forward to your review and appreciate the depth and detail of your video, and the obvious joy the wines bring you. I'm even happier with my purchase now!
There's a lot to love in this release. Thanks for watching
Great video, but I wish you were able to find the time to publish more often! You have however changed my wine life, so much for the better. My Lamella and Schubert’s boxes arrived this week and I look forwards to them. Can I ask why you were comfortable letting the wine oxidise for a few days? I thought that’s the whole point of my gas system? How do I know when to make that decision?
Thanks for watching 🙏 its hard for me with this channel - these videos are easily one of my favourite things to do in wine but they don’t pay the bills: between my full time job with The Advocate and being a mum to two young boys, it can be difficult to find the time to make them. I wish there were more hours in the day.
I guess you just get used to which wines will go well with oxygen, and which don’t. The Standish wine emphatically do go well with time. Lots of trial and error to work out which wines, and how long!
Been waiting for this!
Sorry it's been so long between drinks!
Great work Erin. I always look forward to your Standish reviews each year. I particularly loved the way your were able to articulate your feelings towards the Lamella this year. You are a wordsmith! Great job.
And on a side note, I have to add, that you know you've made it in life when you can review some of the best shiraz in the country comfortably in your pyjamas! That's awesome. Love it! 😀
Haha. The definition of success 😂
Thanks Erin, another awesome review.
Thanks very much - glad you enjoyed watching it!
What a cracking vintage. Great insights Erin, appreciate you taking the time to bring these videos to us. Love your work.
Thanks very much. Appreciate you watching! 🙏
Thanks Erin, love the passion but more importantly your skill/ talent in tasting and describing these amazing wines 👏👏👏
Thanks for watching Steve
pleasantly surprised to see your reviews my standish allowcation arrived yesterday always enjoy the way present the wines great work erin thank you mick s and sami coming as well
Both of my deliveries are also en route. very excited. Tasted with Fraser McKinley the other day and the wines looked brilliant. As expected! Thanks for watching
Thank you Erin. Great insight and information. 😊
Thanks for watching Max🙏
Love you palate...simply amazing. I have Lamella coming and really look forward to them now. Many thanks
Had to wait too long for this Erin, but great stuff. Your descriptions are both detailed and poetic. Great review. Thanks.
I am sorry about the delay, but glad you watched and enjoyed!
Great review as ever Erin, great to see you back on You Tube. This makes my credit card twitch … I may need to get a few more 2022…. Thank you! Love your enthusiasm.
It’s an expensive time of year for all of us 😂
Great Tasting! Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Really love to watch your video Erin. I can always learn something from your video. From how the climate / weather affect the quality of the grapes, winemaking process and how to enjoy the wines which all these things not commonly mentioned in other reviews. Your willingness to share your experience via this channel is invaluable!
Thanks for watching, I really appreciate the feedback!
Thanks Erin…those pearls of wine wisdom are wonderful to hear…I ended up spread-betting last week and got some of each…might have to top up on the lamella now!!
I buy like that anyway, because the wines change over time, so a favourite one day might not be a favourite on another day.
Standish 2022 the Standish
50% whole bunch, cooler year, Greenock subregion of the Barossa, red not dark earth (Maranaga). Greenock Creek wines may have some recognition overseas? I see Marananga as offering power and rich wines, Greenock I see generally as being more about fruit, but this wine goes in the complete other direction. This wine is more about spices and mineral ores.
My bitter soul gravitates to this wine of the four wines tonight (Standish 2022 The Relic, Clonal killer 2022 O'Riada, Frankland Estate 2020 Isolation Ridge Syrahare the others). For a start, I love cumin and fennel seed and these are strong notes on the nose and palate. Black pepper and Ancho Chili - that warm, spice and earth. There's some blood orange and ripe raspberry and some plum and a whole lot of charcuterie and smoke. Clearly worth an 'Outstanding' rating - (Uriah) heaps of intensity and length - Neil Young's 'Cortez the Killer'. Mouth coating and dense and chewy. Complex. Some bitter tannins.
But is this wine in all its parts equal to Neil Young's 'Cortez the Killer', or the even better 'Danger Bird'? Maybe. You have to be good with the style. This is mouth coating stuff. It is not Barossa fruit jam, but I am not sure that I don't find the weight oppressive:
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Erin, thanks for sharing the tasting across this vintage. I agree with you on the age-ability , I have been drinking The Standish for a while with > 15 years on them and they are drinking on similar curves to where I would normally put Bordeaux. The whole bunch is also well received in the Lamella, and doesn’t detract from its typicity, in fact I like the profile it adds to the texture, and hopefully as well in driving that alcohol level even further down
Nice to hear someone is drinking theirs a little older. Good on you 👌🏽
As promised this morning when i picked you up in the Uber i have watched the video and it has made me really want to taste these wines. Your insight and descriptions really bring out the best of these amazing wines. Thank you very much and i apologise for chatting so much so early this morning but enjoyed the verbal wine tasting lesson. hope your two events in Adelaide go well.
Thanks Rod. It was nice to be picked up by a friendly face, especially on the way to what has been an incredibly busy weekend. Thanks for watching the videos, and track down the wines if you can!
thank you, for your video Erin .. you present, in such a genuine manner and you help us all, with your wonderful descriptions ps. i did giggle at your pronunciation of chinotto (kinotto?) glad you're back EL
Thanks!
This was a superb vid Erin. I actually love how Dan likes to remain elusive. Adds an element of mystique to his wines. "The wine where no one knows other than by name who makes it". Dan's elusiveness probably even adds value to the wines? 🙂
Yes maybe you’re right!
Hi Erin
thanks to you I have just bought several bottles of this 2022 vintage^^
please keep up the reviews on those outstandish wines
Haha. Hope you enjoy them 🍷
Thanks Erin.. glad I doubled on the Lamela this year.
I did too!
Amazing praise for all wines. Goosebumps moment for the lamella praise though. Haven’t tasted but got the Schubert and lamella. Might have to try one.
Open it and see what you think. They'll never be easier to top up on than now... a year from now there will be none about.
Thanks Erin for another fabulous Standish run-through. I’m already excited about the vertical tasting next year!! Although that would be a, um… lot of bottles open which you surely need help with, right? (clearly very optimistic, but seriously - Dan/you could easily charge a squillion for a seat at that table to talk and taste through the years).
Haha. Yes I suppose he could… thanks very much for watching 🙏
Can't wait for my 22 Standish wines to arrive. I did enjoy a 1999 The Standish earlier this year. It was amazing but nearing the end of its life.
Thanks Erin, Lamella just added to my basket ! :)
I don’t think Singapore have cottoned on to the recent news. Got a case of Lamella 2022 for 130 a bottle today!
Good for you!
Thanks, Erin really got my intrigued, just had a bottle of the 2021 lamella, had the 2020 lamella last year(liked the 2020 better than the 2021), can't wait to try the 2022 vintage.
The wines interact differently with the vintages, so, as you've found, it's natural to have preferences. 21 was a cooler year, so the bunch component will have looked different than it did in 2020.
Well done Erin. My favourite release and videos of yours every year. Now tell us those few wines you have had that you think are pretty much perfect???
Yes.. this please Erin? 😊
The 2008 Pierre Peters Les Chetillon Champagne. Great vintage, great vineyard, great producer. On this theme, the 2008 Louis Roederer Cristal Champagne. I love this wine, but never more so than in 2008 and 2013. The most magnificent wine I've ever had was a bottle of Private Cuvee Krug from the 1960's. As long as I live I'll never forget the way that wine felt and tasted... I was lucky enough to have a second bottle - this time a magnum - the following year, and it was just the same. Magical.
@@erinlarkin can you throw in a cheeky red or two that is somewhere up there please?
Thank you Erin. Being in Canada, it is extremely difficult to get these wines 😔. I have the complete set from 2020 and hope to add the recent vintages (21, 22), if any appear for sale here. At least I get a glimpse of what I’m missing thru your videos! Need to come back to AU…. 😂
It's worth the trip! Glad you got your hands on a set of the 20's. They were probably the most scarce so count yourself fortunate.
Like many, I bought these wines within minutes of getting the email from Dan. I have had such a wonderful experience with his wines that I will continue to do so.
Immediately after ordering I went looking for your review on WA and also checked Halliday. I quite liked the fact that there was nothing there yet, I enjoy the sense of anticipation that creates.
On a quality to price ratio, I think Standish is comfortably the #1 producer in the country. No one else does what he does at that price. I also think he is up there purely on the merits of what he produces.
Loved the video, and how it supplements the notes, but next year let the people wait again.
Interestingly you’re not the first to say that… about letting people make up their own minds. I would hope that everyone feels the freedom to disagree with me, or any reviewer that you read. Wine is such a personal thing, all we can hope to do is share our thoughts. Thanks for watching 🙏
@@erinlarkin Part of it is selfish. I am going to buy the wines anyway, and I don’t want the competition reviews like this year’s bring.
I agree with you about how personal wine is. I follow reviewers with a similar taste to me. For example, I prefer your notes on Chardonnay anyone else in Australia, because our preferences for that grape are so similar. For Shiraz you tend a little more towards the ethereal than me, so I take that into account when looking at your scores.
Many thanks Erin. Great video and really appreciate your insights and skills in describing these wines. You recommend opening a bottle, tasting a small glass then recorking to drink the following day. Is there any chance the wine could oxidise too much in that 24 period? My 3 x lamella and one each of the others arrived today so exciting times.
I don’t believe they would oxidise too much in that time. You could slow it down by putting the bottle in the fridge I suppose. Tasting the bottle a few times over that period will answer your own questions for you, because by doing that you will work out where you like to drink them… I personally thought two days tasted a lot better than one, but that’s just my opinion. Be interested to hear what you think when you do it.
I always try and get a little more Schubert Theorum and Lamella. Wines arrived within a week. Dan always does a great job
I love both of those cuvees
Thanks Erin, I have my order in the cellar, but now thinking up topping up further, at least to grab another bottle of two to try now. We are headed to Vegas later in the year for our wedding and am looking to take a few special bottles for the occasion. From the 2020 -2022 releases, what would you recommend taking ? Will probably also take some Rockford 2017 Basket Press.
Any of the Standish/Sami-Odi wines were excellent, I'd perhaps also consider some McLaren Vale Grenache from 2020 or 2021 if you've got any
@@erinlarkin Awesome thank you, have some 2021 Thistledown and 2018 Dry Country Grenache. Also trying the 2021 Schuberts across 3 days, opened last night and will try again today and Monday, will update later . Thank you, for the information and advise from Dan in doing this to see how the wines change while young.
Thanks for this. Can you explain double decanting? So you pour into decanter - do you wait a bit? - or pour it back into straight away? And then you do it again?
I did a video on decanting which goes into the process a little, but in a nutshell - out of the bottle, into the decanter, swirl it around, back into the bottle. If you plan on leaving it a while, the air that got into the wine via that process will slowly do its work, even if you put the cork back in, even if you gas it. You can do it between two decanters if you want, then back into bottle... whatever suits you and the wine.
@@erinlarkin wow! I need to try that. Can you share the video you made?
I think waiting is a great idea, let’s people make up their own mind first!
True!
Thanks Erin - the Standish range are all excellent; albeit, the theorem is hard to read…not sure what that’s about😳…as to the best - hard call - there’s several that are great. Personally, Torbreck Runrig - the laird might be better but it’s a bit pricy😢
Both great wines too. Different in style but excellent nonetheless.
I was at Henschke today (tasted 8, bought Euphonium) and drove back past Dan's. I find we all have different preferences. Mine leans towards Marananga but I once tasted a Langmeil Pure Eden that was the closest to perfection since Kym Jenke's reserve shiraz. I try to wait to around 8 years old. I've tried The Relic but must try Schubert's Theorem.
We all do have different preferences, and for me, many of mine are mood related given I like most wines at one time or another! Thanks for watching 🙏
Point up!
Haven't tasted the 22 yet but the 21 is the best Shiraz I have drunk surpasses whendouree big call but that's my opinion thanks Erin for your insight
Massive call, different styles, both excellent wines. Glad you had such a great experience with it!