2025 Sentio Wines Beechworth Shiraz | Cool Climate Victorian Shiraz

🍷 New Release | Beautifully Refined Beechworth Shiraz

One of Beechworth's Most Exciting Young Producers

Sentiō is a producer you need to know

Elegant, site-driven Beechworth Shiraz

Beechworth, Victoria

New Release

$50 a bottle

If you want to understand why Beechworth is rapidly becoming one of Australia's most exciting fine-wine regions, Sentiō is a producer you need to know.

Behind Sentiō is Chris Catlow, a Beechworth native whose winemaking journey included working with Barry Morey at Sorrenberg, studying viticulture and wine science, seven vintages on the Mornington Peninsula and an impressive five vintages in Burgundy. His philosophy at Sentiō centres on making wines that clearly express where they come from.

The 2025 Sentiō Beechworth Shiraz is the latest release from this exciting producer and continues Catlow's exploration of elegant, site-driven Beechworth Shiraz.

At $50, this is exactly the sort of small-production Australian wine worth discovering before everyone else does.

Tasting Notes

Expect a vibrant, aromatic style of Shiraz with:

• Raspberry and blackberry
• Dark cherry and red plum
• Violets and lifted florals
• Cracked black and white pepper
• Dried herbs
• Savoury spice
• Graphite and granitic minerality

Rather than relying on sheer weight and ripeness, this is Shiraz built around perfume, texture, freshness and detail.

The fruit is bright and energetic, with savoury spice and pepper adding complexity before fine tannins carry everything through a long, fresh finish.

It's a very different expression of Australian Shiraz from the traditional Barossa model—and that's precisely what makes it so exciting.

Why Beechworth?

Beechworth has quietly established itself as one of Australia's great small wine regions.

Its combination of altitude, granitic soils and significant differences between vineyard sites allows producers to craft wines with remarkable intensity while retaining freshness and precision.

Sentiō's recent Beechworth Shiraz has been sourced from the Simon Maulsem Vineyard in north-west Beechworth, on sandy granitic soils, with additional fruit from Indigo. The previous release incorporated 20% whole bunch, contributing spice and white-pepper complexity.

The result is a style of Shiraz that prioritises perfume and elegance over sheer power.

A Producer to Watch

Sentiō is first and foremost about place.

Chris Catlow works with carefully selected vineyards and uses his winemaking to reveal rather than overwhelm their character. Sentiō describes its wines as expressions of the vineyards, regions and conditions of each vintage.

And the quality of the Shiraz is already well established—the 2023 Sentiō Beechworth Shiraz received 96 points from Halliday Wine Companion.

That makes this new 2025 release particularly exciting.

Food Pairings

Perfect with:

• Chargrilled lamb
• Duck breast
• Beef short ribs
• Porchetta
• Wild mushroom dishes
• Wood-fired pizza
• Hard cheeses

Cellaring

Beautifully vibrant and expressive in its youth, but the combination of fruit concentration, natural freshness and fine tannins should allow this wine to develop beautifully with bottle age.

Drink now–2035+.

Why We Love It

I've been incredibly impressed by what is happening in Beechworth, and Chris Catlow is exactly the kind of winemaker that makes the region so exciting.

He has the background, the vineyard understanding and—most importantly—the restraint to allow the fruit and vineyard to speak.

The 2025 Sentiō Beechworth Shiraz isn't about making the biggest Shiraz possible. It's about perfume, spice, texture, freshness and that wonderful savoury complexity that makes great cool-climate Shiraz so compelling.

And there's some serious pedigree behind it: the 2023 vintage received 96 points from Halliday Wine Companion.

At $50, this new release is a brilliant opportunity to get onto one of Beechworth's most exciting small producers.

If you love elegant Australian Shiraz rather than big, heavy Shiraz, put this one very high on your list.

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