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1998 Langi Shiraz, Mount Langi Ghiran

Grampians, Australia

The Mountain Wind Shiraz

This is mature Langi with depth, spice and a strong sense of place. The 1998 opens in a darker register, with blackberry, plum, blueberry and black cherry, followed by pepper, liquorice, tobacco, smoke, leather and earthy spice. There is concentration here, but not blunt force. The wine feels shaped by altitude, stone and cool air, with savoury complexity now fully woven into the fruit.

The palate is full, savoury and spicy, with mature dark berries, firm but resolved structure and a long, pepper-laced finish. Age has drawn out its more brooding side: smoked herbs, old leather, dark chocolate, dried flowers and cedar, all wrapped around a core of blackberry and plum. This is the bottle for people who like their mature Shiraz with a little more shoulder and a little more weather in the landscape.

For when you want cool-climate Shiraz with grit, spice and mountain drama.
Pairs with grilled ribeye, peppered venison, lamb shanks, charred aubergine, smoky lentils, or a proper steak and ale pie.
If this wine were… a landscape, it would be granite cliffs in a cold wind, with dark berries growing somewhere sheltered below.

Mount Langi Ghiran stands as one of Australia’s landmark Shiraz estates, not only for the quality of its wines but for changing the conversation around what Australian Shiraz could be. Trevor Mast, the visionary behind Langi Shiraz’s modern identity, became a legend by drawing out the site’s natural perfume, pepper and cool-climate finesse. This is Shiraz with origin and altitude in its bones, carrying the enduring signature of one of the country’s great mountain vineyards.

Whats in the bottle
100% Shiraz

Notable Awards
James Halliday: 95 points

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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.