Elderton 'Command' Shiraz 2022
Barossa
Australia, Australia
Regular price£414.80
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OCC |
| ABV: 15.0% | Closure: Screw cap |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2026 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2045 |
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Critic scores
97 RP, 95 VM, 95 JS, 95 TWF, 97 AC, 96 GM, 97 KG
Critic reviews
"The 2022 Command Single Vineyard Shiraz is approachable and fluffy as both a vintage and, specifically, in the context of this cuvée. Red fruits and licorice, sweet paprika and fennel abound. This is the first year where Nico Velo concrete tulips were purchased and used by the winery, and this promotes purity and freshness in the wine. Excellent! I'd add that the alcohol is a non-event in this wine—the fruit is fresh and buoyant. This is the first year that the toast profile with AP Johns was customized for Elderton, utilizing a longer, lighter toast. The fruit in the Command vineyard is picked in batches, which afford blending options and components to the winemaking team and, equally, constant research and development in viticulture and vineyard management. 15.2% alcohol, sealed under screw cap."
Erin Larkin, June 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2022 Shiraz Command is exceptional. This is deceptively compact and composed yet rippling with ripe mulberry, blackberry, new leather and oak notes that are poised and precise in a claret style. There’s great strength and tension here. The powerful fruit still remains in its shell and is encased with structural, balanced tannins that will reward time in the cellar."
Angus Hughson, August 2025, Vinous.com
"A well-shaped, focused, flavorful and driven shiraz with aromas of wild berries, dried herbs, fresh peppercorns and baking spices. Full-bodied with finely grained tannins. It's fleshy yet in control. Generous fruit mingles with the spices on the linear, serious and driven palate. Long, flavorful, peppery finish. Drink or hold. Screw cap."
Kevin Davy, March 2025, JamesSuckling.com
"Medium-deep crimson. Intense blackberry. Mocha spice aromas with hints of wax polish and marzipan. Supple and evolved blackberry, spice, mocha, espresso flavours, lovely mid-palate richness and plentiful chalky/ touch ferruginious tannins. Some cedarwood, roasted chestnut notes at the finish. Very classical Drink now–2040"
Andrew Caillard MW, The Vintage Journal, 97 points
"I’ve been looking forward to this wine, ever since I tasted the previous vintage – both are superb Barossa years. Would it, could it, match the majestic 2021? It was always going to be an immensely difficult task, but at this early stage, it comes ever so close. In the years to come, it will be fascinating to watch the pair. The fruit comes from a vineyard planted back in 1894. The wine spends time in a mix of French and American oak. An opaque maroon, this is fresh and energetic, with good focus. There is quality oak, well into integration. The nose exhibits notes of chocolate, blackberries, florals, coffee beans, mocha, aniseed and plums. Ideally balanced with great length, the wine finishes with the silkiest of tannins. Perhaps more classically structured than the 21, which offered more plushness, but there is such promise here. A cracker. Twenty to twenty-five years of pleasure ahead. In the pantheon of great Barossa Shiraz, this is sensational value."
Ken Gargett, WinePilot.com, 97 points
Erin Larkin, June 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2022 Shiraz Command is exceptional. This is deceptively compact and composed yet rippling with ripe mulberry, blackberry, new leather and oak notes that are poised and precise in a claret style. There’s great strength and tension here. The powerful fruit still remains in its shell and is encased with structural, balanced tannins that will reward time in the cellar."
Angus Hughson, August 2025, Vinous.com
"A well-shaped, focused, flavorful and driven shiraz with aromas of wild berries, dried herbs, fresh peppercorns and baking spices. Full-bodied with finely grained tannins. It's fleshy yet in control. Generous fruit mingles with the spices on the linear, serious and driven palate. Long, flavorful, peppery finish. Drink or hold. Screw cap."
Kevin Davy, March 2025, JamesSuckling.com
"Medium-deep crimson. Intense blackberry. Mocha spice aromas with hints of wax polish and marzipan. Supple and evolved blackberry, spice, mocha, espresso flavours, lovely mid-palate richness and plentiful chalky/ touch ferruginious tannins. Some cedarwood, roasted chestnut notes at the finish. Very classical Drink now–2040"
Andrew Caillard MW, The Vintage Journal, 97 points
"I’ve been looking forward to this wine, ever since I tasted the previous vintage – both are superb Barossa years. Would it, could it, match the majestic 2021? It was always going to be an immensely difficult task, but at this early stage, it comes ever so close. In the years to come, it will be fascinating to watch the pair. The fruit comes from a vineyard planted back in 1894. The wine spends time in a mix of French and American oak. An opaque maroon, this is fresh and energetic, with good focus. There is quality oak, well into integration. The nose exhibits notes of chocolate, blackberries, florals, coffee beans, mocha, aniseed and plums. Ideally balanced with great length, the wine finishes with the silkiest of tannins. Perhaps more classically structured than the 21, which offered more plushness, but there is such promise here. A cracker. Twenty to twenty-five years of pleasure ahead. In the pantheon of great Barossa Shiraz, this is sensational value."
Ken Gargett, WinePilot.com, 97 points