Bold and expressive, the 2021 Lilys Garden is McLaren Vale Shiraz turned up to full volume. Rich boysenberry fruit, baking spices, and a plush, mouth-filling palate make this feel like velvet with a backbone. Give it air, and it flexes even moresaline, structured, and built to impress now or later. A classic with confidence.

James Suckling | JS 95
Published: Aug 1, 2023

The commitment here to showcasing Pandora\’s box of shiraz is admirable, each cuvee strongly tethered to its respective region. Here, McLaren Vale fruitcake and baking spices, clove, star anise and boysenberry. The palate expands admirably, absorbing the kit of oak that has more of an old-school astringency feeling than the other cuvees. The finish, pulsing, saline and long, shedding the obvious sweetness with air as the tannins grow in stature and grasp the wine\’s scruff, imparting a confident augur of age-worthiness. Drink or hold.

The Wine Advocate | RP 93
Published: Aug 24, 2023
Drink: 2023-2033

The 2021 Lily\’s Garden Shiraz is from McLaren Vale and smells at first like a lot of good-quality oak, with lashings of toasted coconut, nutmeg, crunchy chicken skin, nutmeg and cedar. In the mouth, however, the fruit washes over any notion of oak and splashes every part of the palate with pure purple flavor and color. This is a concentrated and opulent Shiraz, with all the trappings of McLaren Vale. It is refreshing and very \”made,\” perfect. By the book. 14.5% alcohol, sealed under Diam.

Twohandswines.com

Two Hands source premium fruit from six of the finest Shiraz growing regions in Australia, from which we produce the Garden Series. Fascinated about isolating a wine to its region and wanting to define and showcase the individual characteristics of the best Australian Shiraz growing regions, Michael Twelftree has successfully demonstrated regionality within Australian Shiraz for many years with the Garden Series. Showcasing six wines, each sourced from a premium Shiraz growing region in Australia, all handled identically in terms of vinification and maturation on the Two Hands? estate, the Garden Series accurately reflects the soil, climate and other aspects of each unique region.