Jim Barry 'The Armagh' 2016
Clare Valley
Australia, Australia
Regular price£495.00
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Arriving: Late 2026
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 14.2% | Closure: |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2023 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2040 |
| Grapes: 100% Shiraz | |
Critic scores
97 RP, 96 VM, 99 JS, 98 JA, 99 DC, 96 DB, 96 JH
Critic reviews
"My pick of the recently bottled vintages, the 2016 The Armagh Shiraz shows a bit more obvious oak (simply because of its youth) but also a wonderful taut tension between ripeness and acidity. The fruit here is a bit redder in profile, leaning more toward raspberries than blackberries, while still being fully ripe. Full-bodied and supple, it finishes cedary, intense and long, adding in complex, lingering spice notes."
Joe Czerwinski, February 2020, RobertParker.com
"Deeply colored and flavored, the full-throttle 2016 Shiraz The Armagh delivers a rich and impressive core of blackberry, chocolate, blueberry, cloves, earth, eucalypt and dried spices wrapped up in a cloak of oak. Immense fruit concentration follows with a freight train of sweet oak and immaculately balanced drying tannins, building up to a massive finish."
Angus Hughson, June 2024, Vinous.com
"Wow. This is a bold, brassy shiraz that carries a wealth of very intense aromas of ripe blackberries, dark plums, licorice and sweetly spiced earth. Still so very youthful and primary. The palate is so powerful, so mouth-filling and so, so juicy. This manages to deliver such intensity and composure. Supple, long and deep-set tannins and heroically expressive fruit. Really impressive now, but this will deliver much more over the next two decades. One of the finest releases to date."
James Suckling, June 2020, JamesSuckling.com
"Tannins beginning to melt and soften, showing grilled smoky edge, black tea, olive tapenade, concentrated and powerful with lavender, mint, forest floor, beginning of tertiary in the best way, liquorice, walnut and toast. Tasted twice. 3.3ha estate, Sam Barry winemaker. Late release."
Jane Anson, July 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Quite gracious for Clare Valley Shiraz. More refined and aerial than the 2022, tasted alongside. Very elegant and a little more ample in frame, with greater midpalate clarity and delineation. Patchouli candlewax. Incense. Even a hint of cordite. This is more layered too, and it’s almost as if the greater aging has allowed the fruit to resolve itself into layers. Quite solar but in a managed way. Elegant and glossy yet with lots of aging potential. Long and gently tapering on the finish. 96+."
Colin Hay, August 2026, DrinksBusiness.com
Joe Czerwinski, February 2020, RobertParker.com
"Deeply colored and flavored, the full-throttle 2016 Shiraz The Armagh delivers a rich and impressive core of blackberry, chocolate, blueberry, cloves, earth, eucalypt and dried spices wrapped up in a cloak of oak. Immense fruit concentration follows with a freight train of sweet oak and immaculately balanced drying tannins, building up to a massive finish."
Angus Hughson, June 2024, Vinous.com
"Wow. This is a bold, brassy shiraz that carries a wealth of very intense aromas of ripe blackberries, dark plums, licorice and sweetly spiced earth. Still so very youthful and primary. The palate is so powerful, so mouth-filling and so, so juicy. This manages to deliver such intensity and composure. Supple, long and deep-set tannins and heroically expressive fruit. Really impressive now, but this will deliver much more over the next two decades. One of the finest releases to date."
James Suckling, June 2020, JamesSuckling.com
"Tannins beginning to melt and soften, showing grilled smoky edge, black tea, olive tapenade, concentrated and powerful with lavender, mint, forest floor, beginning of tertiary in the best way, liquorice, walnut and toast. Tasted twice. 3.3ha estate, Sam Barry winemaker. Late release."
Jane Anson, July 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Quite gracious for Clare Valley Shiraz. More refined and aerial than the 2022, tasted alongside. Very elegant and a little more ample in frame, with greater midpalate clarity and delineation. Patchouli candlewax. Incense. Even a hint of cordite. This is more layered too, and it’s almost as if the greater aging has allowed the fruit to resolve itself into layers. Quite solar but in a managed way. Elegant and glossy yet with lots of aging potential. Long and gently tapering on the finish. 96+."
Colin Hay, August 2026, DrinksBusiness.com