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2022 Yalumba "The Signature" Cabernet-Shiraz Barossa Valley South Australia

2022 Yalumba "The Signature" Cabernet-Shiraz Barossa Valley South Australia

97RP
96JH
96WE
95JS
95VN
$67.99

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Wine Advocate

Reviewed July 2025
The 2022 The Signature Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz is so pretty—floral, red fruited and fine. This is a beautiful iteration of this wine. Ironically, there's a coastal freshness about it—kelp, brine, crushed shells—given it is nowhere near the coast. It's capacious and mineral and so fresh. The tannins are fine and neat, and the wine has incredible focus and line through the long finish. It's very impressive, potentially one of my favorite releases of this wine to date. It has wholly Barossa fruit this vintage. 14.5% alcohol, sealed under natural cork. (EL)

Professional Reviews

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James Halliday

Review Date: 04/2025
Yalumba's famous Signature cabernet sauvignon and shiraz blend has a strong pedigree when it comes to cellaring and the 2022 release will certainly carry on long into the future. The fruit density and purity here are impressive. Blackberry, doris plum and black cherry tones, their flow elegant and graceful across the palate with hints of spice, cedar, tobacco, pencil shavings, roasting meats, dried herbs and olive tapenade. Fine-grained tannins are in abundance and there is an extended finish that rolls on and on. It's a super release. (DB)

96

Wine Enthusiast

Review Date: 12/2025
A nose-full of enticing aromas, from cedar and mocha to succulent, spice-dusted blackberry, with Cab's oh-so-distinctive pencil shavings character peaking its head up, too. Those satiny, juicy black and blue fruit flavors rush in on the palate, coating the tongue, tamed halfway through dusty, fine sandpapery tannins. This is an especially approachable, aromatic vintage of this top wine from a historic Barossa producer. While you could pop it in a decanter and serve with a slab of protein now, it should also age with intention for many decades. (CP)

95

James Suckling

Review Date: 03/2025
Savory aromas of blackcurrants, cedar, tobacco leaves, ferrous earth and bitter chocolate. The palate is full-bodied with firmly framed tannins, a long, persisting finish and lingering notes of blackberries, blood plums and walnuts. A serious wine that is built to last for years in the bottle.

Staff Reviews

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Rachael Ryan

Rachael Ryan

K&L Buyer
Review Date: 03/2026
As Australia’s oldest family-owned winery, with a legacy stretching back to 1849, Yalumba consistently produces some of the best wines in the country, vintage after vintage. The Signature is one of the estate’s benchmark wines that clearly shows off this dedication to quality. A blend of 53% Cabernet Sauvignon and 47% Shiraz, aged in a combination of French, Hungarian and American oak for 21 months, the Signature is rich, dense and highly complex, yet not overly extracted or heavy-handed in the least. Rather, it showcases what the Barossa does best: balance old vine intensity with elegance and finesse. It’s also so classically Barossa, showing off exactly why Cabernet and Shiraz combine so well in this Mediterranean climate. The wine has equal parts red fruit from the Cabernet – juicy red currant, Santa Rosa plum, pomegranate – and black/blue fruit from the Shiraz – wild blueberry, black plum – all tied together with a distinctly herbaceous streak through the core of the wine. Subtle toasty oak notes support in the background, letting the fruit take center stage. This wine is traditionally Australian in the best way, full-bodied and powerful, but refined and sophisticated at the same time, ready to drink now but also with the density and concentration to age for years to come. Like many countries in the world, Australia has been experiencing a renaissance of sorts, with new varieties and winemaking styles joining the conversation, but sometimes it’s most rewarding to stick to the classics. After all, there’s a reason why these wines have endured for decades – they’re simply delicious.

Notes

Yalumba is Australia’s oldest family-owned winery, founded in 1849 by English immigrant Samuel Smith in the Barossa Valley. Smith planted his first vineyards near the town of Angaston shortly after arriving in South Australia. Over nearly two centuries, the winery has remained in continuous family ownership and is now run by the sixth generation of the Smith family, led in recent years by Robert Hill-Smith. Yalumba played a major role in establishing the Barossa Valley as one of Australia’s most respected wine regions, particularly through its work with varieties such as Shiraz, Grenache, and Viognier. The winery is also notable for maintaining its own on-site cooperage, where barrels are handcrafted for aging wines—an increasingly rare practice in the modern wine industry. One of the top wines of the estate The Signature, a Cabernet Sauvignon-Shiraz blend, first produced in 1962. It has been produced almost every year since, making it one of Australia’s longest-running prestige blends. “The Signature” was created to represent the best of Yalumba in a given vintage. Each release honors a person who has made a major contribution to the winery, known as the “Signatory,” which is why the wine carries both a name and a handwritten signature on the label. Over the decades, more than fifty employees—from winemakers to viticulturists—have been recognized this way, reflecting Yalumba’s commitment to both family and staff.

Details

OriginBarossa Valley, South Australia, Australia
Type/VarietalCabernet Sauvignon and Blends
Alcohol Content14%
SKU1987333