The 2018 The Standish Shiraz (a sample blend from barrel) is a bit stalky (it's about 50% whole cluster), but it's gorgeously perfumed, with hints of herbal tea, raspberries, blackberries and licorice. It just exudes complexity, while also being full-bodied, plush and creamy, with a long, elegant finish. This seamless beauty is a candidate for perfection

Greenock parcel with an ironstone base and plenty of ironstone through the top soil. This has is super complex and fragrant with some orange zest, intense raspberries, blackberries and an almost Rhône-like blood-orange edge. There's a deeply spicy thread, driven by oak, which suits the dark-berry and dark-chocolate aromas. Sheer, polished and glossy with a very intense, concentrated delivery of blackberries and dark plums. So polished and silky, powerful and graceful. This has luxurious texture and such underlying power. Drink or hold.

Spicy black fruit, dark and brooding, but finds its way through the mouth as surely as a cat in the night. Black liquorice, fresh picked blackberry and boysenberry, deep but with no shortage of energy and freshness, the tannin grips with a fine chalk powder texture, green tea perfume adds a little edge, and the finish is so long, stony and bright. It's a class act from start to finish. Drink 2023-2040

The acid and tannin structure is assertive at first but knits together given time and air. Intense, sinewy and creamy raspberry, damson and blackberry fruit joins spice, mint, mocha and nuances of charcuterie and earth. From the Laycock Family Vineyard in Greenock planted in 2002 on ironstone gravels and schist over red clay and ironstone bedrock.