Saint and Scholar Graduates Shiraz 2022 from the Adelaide Hills is a vibrant, ruby‑to‑burgundy red that walks the line between cool‑climate elegance and proper shiraz flavour hit, making it a cracking all‑round dinner red. It’s stylish, refreshing and medium‑bodied, with modest alcohol and a real focus on perfume and spice rather than sheer heft.

On the nose, Saint and Scholar Graduates Shiraz 2022 shows bright raspberry and strawberry over darker blackberry and plum, laced with black pepper, sweet baking spice and a gentle mocha note. The palate is slurpy and dark‑fruited, with blackberry and plum flooding the front, hints of red cherry, creamy mocha and savoury meatiness in the middle, all wrapped in fine tannins, fresh acid and attractive pepper and spice that give length and a moreish, cool‑climate feel.

This Graduates Shiraz is spot on with grilled lamb chops, BBQ snags, peppered steak, gourmet burgers or a rich eggplant parmigiana, and it absolutely shines as a house red when you want something flavoursome yet poised that will keep both shiraz lovers and pinot drinkers happy at the same table.