Mount Langi Ghiran
"Langi" Shiraz Grampians
2005

The producer

Mount Langi Ghiran is arguably the best producer in Grampians. The estate owns 70 hectares of vineyards, all located 350 meters above sea level between the mountains Mount Langi Ghiran and Mount Cole. Langi Ghiran mainly focuses on red grapes, with Shiraz the dominant variety, and specialise in unique cool climate wines, which due to the long slow growing season result in an impressive range of fruit flavours and pristine aromatics, of which pepper and spice are characteristic.

Langi Ghiran’s wines are, due to the distinctly cool climate of the vineyards, some of the latest Shiraz grapes to be picked in Australia. The soil consists of variations of granite sands over red clay loam. The ‘Old Block’ - planted in 1969 with a unique 140-year-old Shiraz clone – and which is the source of the flagship wine “Langi”, is the estate’s pride and joy.

The wine

Langi Ghiran calls “Langi” their landmark wine and the ultimate expression in cool climate Shiraz. Fruit is sourced from the ‘Old Block’, a unique vineyard planted in 1969 with a 140-year-old Shiraz clone. Fermentation is carried out with 10% wholebunch and an average 2-3 weeks of skin contact and includes a mixture of plunging and pump-overs. Finally malolactic fermentation and ageing takes place in oak barrels, the latter for around 18 months. Langi is a wine of incredible volume and bright berry flavour density, with fine yet firm and integrated tannins, distinctive elevated freshness, crunchy texture and a long finish.

We choose our wines based on a range of criteria (see how we choose our wines) of which critic scores is just one. Rather than simply highlight the best score to promote a wine, our average critic score is calculated from the scores provided by several respected wine critics, who we follow for specific regions. They do not represent all critic scores and, wherever possible, we try and give more weight to more recent reviews. Where appropriate we consider market-based scores like Global Wine Score or Wine Searcher Average scores.

As a rule, we look to offer wines that achieve a 92/100 average critic score or better and frankly a lot of very good wines simply don’t make the cut. As a high-end provider we want to reflect that positioning in the quality of wines we offer. Such wines are only a tiny fraction of those generally on offer in the market. We believe that an average score is a more conservative and representative approach, but it is still subjective and only offered as a guide to our customers, who will (and should) do their own research. We will add individual critic scores to our website in the future.