98 Point Rated - Ray Jordan Wine Pilot 

"This great wine was first released in 1964 as Seppelt Great Western hermitage and over the years I have been fortunate enough to taste many exceptional wines under that name. The 1971 comes to mind as one of the greatest Australian wines I have tasted. It was renamed St Peters in 1998 and since then has created a real identity. It comes from several vineyards at Seppelt Great Western, chosen for how they conform to the required style. It always gas a distinctive graphite and iron filings dustiness that pervades the palate and the nose. Seamless and so well integrated with the oak and tannin combination help to focus a very long finish. This consistently ranks with my best Australian releases each year."

97 Point Rated - Huon Hooke The Real Review 

"Very deep, youthful purple/red colour, with an expressive pepper-spice and graphite, earthy, ironstone bouquet. Very complex and multi-faceted in spite of its youth. The wine is very full-bodied, concentrated yet beautifully balanced, with ample fine, supple, yet persuasive tannins that bring an appetising dryness to the middle and end-palate. Richness, concentration, and impossible elegance into the bargain. A great shiraz. (Aged in small and large format French oak)"

96 Point Rated Andrew Cailard MW

"Deep colour. Fresh elderberry, mulberry, dark chocolate, hint black pepper aromas with flinty aniseed notes. Voluminous and vigorous palate with deep set mulberry, blackberry elderberry fruits, plentiful chocolaty textures and underlying mocha oak complexity. Finishes firm with pure fresh long acidity, some aniseed notes and bell-clear sweet dark fruit notes. Density and torque. Give it time to settle."

95 Point Rated - Jeni Port James Halliday Wine Companion 

"Fermentation in small-batch open fermenters. Matured 14 months in small- and large-format French oak. Even in its youth, St. Peters brings a sense of poise and elegance. The '19 has an added degree of refinement, oak seems more measured than in the past, the fruit more composed. The vintage rates highly with winemakers in the region. Restrained aromas of earthy spice, plums, blackberries and a hint of bay leaf. Smooth and subtle in the mouth – it's early days – with depth."

93 Point Rated - Mike Bennie The Wine Front 

"“Exceptional Vineyard” thunders the label. Indeed! Dark, brooding black berry fruit characters, white pepper dusted liberally, faint eucalyptus, green herb, roast meats. Authority in scent! Huge. Exciting. Sweet berry flavours, a late kick of savoury-meaty character, big presence in the palate, spreads wide, soft, with a web of fine, feathery slightly smoky-flinty tannins. More muscle. A distinct, bolder expression of St Peters here, not in the pedigree of recent releases, but showcasing the year, perhaps."

Gold Medal 

Jeni Port James Halliday Wine Companion