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1999 Langi Shiraz, Mount Langi Ghiran

Grampians, Australia

The Icon in the Mountain Shadow

The 1999 Langi Shiraz is a benchmark mature Australian red, full of perfume, spice and quiet authority. Black cherry, plum, brambly blackberry and redcurrant lead the way, followed by cracked pepper, mint, liquorice, leather, tobacco and dried herbs. It has the aromatic complexity that made Langi famous: dark fruit, wild spice, savoury development and mountain freshness, all carried without heaviness.

The palate is lively, sweet-fruited and beautifully seasoned by age. Mature black fruit folds into mint, leather, liquorice, spice and pepper, with fine tannins and a long, savoury finish. It has stature without bulk and maturity without fatigue, the sort of Shiraz that reminds you why Langi became such an important name in Australian wine.

For when you want a benchmark Australian Shiraz with age, story and stature.
Pairs with roast grouse, lamb rack, slow-braised short rib, peppered steak, wild mushroom pithivier, or aged Comté.
If this wine were… a voice, it would be low, calm and completely impossible to ignore.

Mount Langi Ghiran is one of Australia’s true cool-climate Shiraz icons, rooted in the dramatic landscape of Victoria’s Grampians and known for wines of perfume, pepper, savoury complexity and longevity. Trevor Mast was the legendary force behind Langi Shiraz’s rise, turning a remote mountain vineyard into a globally respected benchmark and inspiring a style that remains unmistakable today. Langi Shiraz is the estate’s calling card: elegant, ageworthy and deeply expressive of place.

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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.