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1997 Langi Shiraz, Mount Langi Ghiran

Grampians, Australia

The Velvet Echo of the Grampians

The 1997 Langi Shiraz is a graceful, old-cellar expression of one of Australia’s great mountain reds. The fruit has softened beautifully into maturity, with black cherry, plum, liquorice and dried raspberry joined by subtle oak, leather, black tea, dried mint, earth and warm spice. It is polished, savoury and quietly luxurious, with the kind of perfume that only time can give.

The palate carries ripe dark fruit at its centre, now wrapped in mellow tannins and a fine savoury finish. There is still enough freshness to keep the wine poised, but the pleasure here is all about harmony: fruit, age, spice and texture moving together with calm confidence. This is mature Shiraz for those who prefer elegance over volume.

For when you want mature Shiraz with polish, restraint and old-cellar romance.
Pairs with duck with cherries, lamb cutlets, beef Wellington, porcini risotto, roasted root vegetables, or hard mountain cheeses.
If this wine were… a room, it would be a library at dusk, leather chairs, low lamps and one very good story left untold.

Mount Langi Ghiran is one of the great names of Australian Shiraz, celebrated for proving that the grape could be as perfumed, spicy and elegant as it is powerful. Trevor Mast was central to that rise: a legend of Australian wine whose vision transformed Langi into a benchmark for cool-climate Shiraz. The estate’s isolated Grampians vineyard, framed by mountain air and granite country, gives the wine its singular voice of pepper, dark fruit, savoury detail and graceful ageworthiness.

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Mount Langi Ghiran is one of the great names of Australian Shiraz, the estate that helped prove the country’s most famous red grape could be about fragrance, spice and precision as much as power. Set in Victoria’s Grampians, beneath the dramatic sweep of the Great Dividing Range, the vineyard has become a landmark for cool-climate Shiraz: pepper-laced, perfumed, savoury, ageworthy and unmistakably its own.

The modern story began with the Fratin family, who replanted the property in 1969 and created the now iconic Langi Old Block Shiraz. But it was Trevor Mast who turned that promise into legend. Talented, charismatic and deeply visionary, Mast arrived as a consultant at the start of the 1980s and saw something extraordinary in this remote, granite-influenced mountain site. At a time when Australian Shiraz was largely defined by warmth, richness and weight, he imagined something different: a finer, cooler, more aromatic style, driven by black pepper, dark fruit, lifted spice and long, elegant structure.

Mast and his wife Sandra later purchased Mount Langi Ghiran with Ian Menzies, and through years of focus, conviction and sheer hard work, Trevor built Langi Shiraz into one of Australia’s most distinctive and respected wines. He became a legend of the Victorian wine industry, not by following fashion, but by trusting the vineyard. His era gave Mount Langi Ghiran its identity, its confidence and its place in the story of modern Australian wine.

Today, Langi Shiraz remains the estate’s great signature: a wine of mountain air, old vines, savoury complexity and remarkable longevity. Every mature bottle carries something of the Trevor Mast legacy, the belief that Shiraz from this singular Grampians site could speak with elegance, perfume and quiet authority. It is not just an Australian icon. It is one of the wines that changed what Australian Shiraz could be.