Head Barossa Reds Tasting Pack

• 2024 Head Red GSM
• 2023 Head Red Shiraz
• 2024 Head Old Vine Grenache
• 2025 Head Old Vine Shiraz

2024 Head Red GSM

Alex Head's Head GSM is fresher take on a classic Barossan Grenache blend, focusing on perfume, drinkability, and offering great value.

Alex's passion for contemporary Barossa wines shines through in this blend. He collaborates with small, sustainable growers, sourcing grapes from some of the region's oldest vineyards, up to 100 years old.

The Grenache offers vibrant fruit, Shiraz adds dried herb notes, and Mataro brings spice and tannin, creating a harmonious blend with plush fruit, fresh acidity and a long, spicy finish.

This is a versatile mid-week slurper, perfect with pizza, pasta, or on its own. As with all of Alex's wines, it delivers superb value, and an honest taste of the Barossa through a modern lens.

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2023 Head Red Shiraz

The Head Red Shiraz is considered the trailer or preview to each vintage of the Head premium single-vineyard Shirazes.

This is made from the barrels that barely missed the cut on the SV Shiraz; The Blonde; The Brunette and The Contrarian. Made with all the love and care that go into his top-flight releases, Alex Head releases this as a younger wine as something to enjoy whilst waiting for his premium releases to mature.

It's plush, full-bodied yet built for early drinking in the best possible way. For easy-drinking but serious Barossa Shiraz, it's hard to go past this release.

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2024 Head Old Vine Grenache

The Old Vine Grenache is one of Alex's specialities and arguably one of the first and most important Grenache wines of the modern era to inspire the flood of more refined Grenache we see emerging across Australia today.

The fruit from this 166-year-old vineyard gets full opportunity to show its true character. An extraordinary wine for its price. It shows a rare restraint in the use of oak. It's all about the dark rich fruit, and with fruit this beautiful, by Jove, it should be! Lots of baked earth and spice flavours too.

An excellent contemporary example of Australia's world-class Grenache capabilities.

94 points
"The fruit is gorgeous, pure and weighted just so, the tannins are billowing and pillowy and the acidity is bright. Once again '24 comes up with the goods."
- Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)

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2025 Head Old Vine Shiraz

Alex Head’s 'Old Vine' label is a tribute to the Barossa’s greatest resource: its historic vineyards. While his Single Site releases zoom in on specific blocks, this wine zooms out to capture a broader regional picture, blending fruit from some incredible sites across both the Barossa and Eden Valleys.

For the 2025 vintage, the base is the Riebke Schrapel block in Ebenezer (planted in the 1950s), supported by 1960s plantings on Mengler’s Hill and the high-altitude Mattschoss Trial Hill site (planted in the 1940s). Interestingly, Alex has also included a splash of Cabernet Sauvignon from Moculta and Ebenezer to add a little structural spine to the blend.

The winemaking is all about restraint rather than extraction. Alex uses gentle techniques to ensure the wine retains elegance, ageing it for 11 months in French oak barriques (20% new). The result is a wine that delivers the trademark opulence and sweet fruit richness of old vines, but with a freshness and focus that keeps it vibrant.

It is robust, powerful and classically Barossa, yet wonderfully balanced.

96 points
"If you love Barossa Valley Reds, this is for you and it represents brilliant value. Soft in texture but chock full of flavour."
- Ken Gargett (Wine Pilot)

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