DISCOVER THE TOP-RATED BORDEAUX VARIETIES, SHIRAZ AND SYRAH

Our judges rated Passage Rock Generation Cabernet 2020 so highly that they reckon it’s a wine that will come round just once in a generation. It did, however, have to beat off stiff competition from some Hawke’s Bay beauties and from across the ditch. Both 2019 and 2020 produced top-quality vintages of syrah, so congratulations to the team at Church Road, whose Church Road Grand Reserve Syrah 2019 led a very strong field,

including the Church Road Mcdonald Series Syrah 2019, which placed second. In the shiraz tasting, the intriguing Taylors

Estate Shiraz 2019 showed just what can be done with a clever combination of fruit from the traditional sources of the Clare Valley and newer plantings in the cooler-region Limestone Coast. For full results and tasting notes go to