Six decades of single-vineyard Shiraz — Hill of Grace, Mount Edelstone and The Wheelwright — read through critic scores and the Eden Valley seasons that shaped them.
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Wine in focusdrives every chart and the vintage finder below
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Find a vintage's kindred years
Choose a vintage and we'll surface the seasons most alike — by warmth, rainfall and picking time — and light them up on the timeline.
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How they've scored
Average critic score by vintage, and the spread of opinion within each year.
Average critic score by vintage
All three wines, 1956–2022. Higher is better.
Spread of scores —
The bar is the lowest-to-highest critic score that year; the dot is the average.
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How the season shaped the wine
Eden Valley growing-season warmth and picking timing, set against the scores.
Score vs season warmth —
Each dot is a vintage. Warmer growing seasons sit further right.
Score & season over time —
Bars = score, line = season warmth, dashed = picking date.
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Rain through the season
Growing-season rainfall (Oct–Apr) and the rain around harvest (Mar–Apr).
Does a wetter or drier season track with higher scores?
Live from the Lamont's cellar database. Growing-season rainfall = Oct–Apr total; harvest rainfall = Mar–Apr. Season warmth, picking dates & rainfall from Henschke vintage reports and BoM Nuriootpa (023321 to 1998, 023373 from 1999). Three seasons (2006, 2015, 2022) include one summer month estimated from a regional station. Scores aggregated from published critic reviews.
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