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Best's Bin 0 Shiraz 2009 Best’s Great Western Shiraz Bin N o O has recently received the accolade of being voted in Australia’s top 101 wines by Langton’s Classification. Best’s Bin O Shiraz is sourced from four low yielding Concongella Shiraz blocks established in 1966, 1970, 1992 and 1994. Vinification takes place in open stainless steel fermenters. The wine is matured in a combination of 1/3 new and one and two year old French and American oak (barriques and puncheons) for around 12 months. In a declassified year some Thomson Reserve fruit (from some of the oldest Shiraz plantings in Victoria) can be included. Viv Thomson – 4th generation winemaker – believes that there are two types of wines, "talking wines and drinking wines". This is a happy blend of both. It has intense mulberry blackberry aromas, background oak and loose-knit gravelly tannins developing further complexity with medium term cellaring. Langtons Best's winery and vineyards are among Australia's best-kept secrets. Indeed the vineyards, with vines dating back to 1867, have secrets which may never be revealed: for example, certain vines planted in the Nursery Block have defied identification and are thought to exist nowhere else in the world. The cellars, too, go back to the same era, constructed by butcher-turned-winemaker Henry Best and his family. Since 1920, the Thomson family has owned the property, with father Viv and sons Ben, Bart and Marcus representing the fourth and fifth generations, consistently producing elegant, supple wines which deserve far greater recognition than they receive. The Bin 0 Shiraz is a classic, the Thomson Family Shiraz magnificent. Exports to the UK and other major markets. 5 star winery James Halliday Viv Thomson of Best’s was persuaded to clear a little cellar space by putting some of his mature vintages on the market. Best’s Great Western Bin No. 0 shiraz 1981 is, amazingly, not yet mature but is absolutely delicious with its skein of excitingly rich fruit, and the 1983 with its thick, exotic licorice character is a marvel too. Cachet Wines of Hull are currently selling them to the trade and expect to see them in the likes of Harvey Nichols, Handford and Robersons wine stores in London in December. Best’s Great Western Chardonnay 1991 was another wonder, subtle and savoury, with much more life in it than most 1991 white Burgundies. I am thinking of buying it for my daughter born in that year who is, like others of her vintage, rather short of drinkable souvenirs of 1991 from Europe. Jancis Robinson Dating back to 1866 Best's is one of the oldest family-owned and run wineries to have operated continuously in the state of Victoria, Australia. Throughout its life there have been only two owners – the Bests and the Thomsons. That it is still in the hands of the Thomsons, is a tribute to the tenacity of this family, now in its fifth generation at Great Western. 'Concongella' was established in 1866 by Henry Best, whose knowledge of wine was quite negligible, but whose capacity for work was mammoth and the project flourished. After Henry's death his son sold the enterprise in 1920 to second-generation vigneron, Frederick P. Thomson. Under the Thomson family the Best's name continues to flourish and grow. Well-respected fourth generation vigneron, Viv Thomson, together with his wife Christine and family, Ben and Bart, continue to combine traditional methods with today's technology and forward thinking. Observes wine critic Robin Bradley "Best's have produced consistently beguiling wines for decades". Best's