2024 Mount Pleasant OP & OH Shiraz, Hunter Valley

Heady, high-toned aromatics, intensely ripe-fruited. Red plum, mulberry, candied cherry and dragonfruit flavours flow through the palate. Plush, warm and engaging. It finishes with a crescendo of flavour on the close. Drink to 2034.

95+ points Toni Paterson MW for Halliday Wine Companion, June 2026

OP & OH is short for Old Hill and Old Paddock, this vintage opens with blackcurrant and wild raspberries. Nicely ripe with a candied orange rind high tone. Some rugged brown spices, cumin and mace. It is stitched together with fine lacey tannins and a good whip of graduated acidity. This embraces you with its friendly red and black fruits but continues to impress with long flavour length and memorable chiselled edges, almost gravelly stoney features across the finish. This will play nicely with meats like flank steak or venison. Drink now or cellar for another 8-10 years further.

95 points Shanteh Wale for Wine Pilot, June 2026

Deep-ish purple-red colour; very earthy, broken rock/ironstone/ferrous and graphite aromas, the palate is very energised and zesty with intense spice and dark fruit flavours, the structure very lively and elegant thanks to refreshing acidity and measured tannins. Superb shiraz to drink or cellar. Drink to 2039.

94 points Huon Hooke for The Real Review, January 2026

More about this wine

Maurice O’Shea, alongside his mother Léontine and brother Jack, purchased the historic 1880 planted Old Hill vineyard and its two adjoining parcels of land in 1921. He named the new property Mount Pleasant and planted the Old Paddock vineyard with cuttings of the former.

This blend marries the bright, complex red fruits and softer tannin profile of the cooler Old Hill with the dark fruit and powerful tannin of Old Paddock.

About Mount Pleasant

The legendary Mount Pleasant estate was founded by one of the true visionaries of Australian wine, Maurice O’Shea. The vineyards include plantings of ancestral vines of 1880, as well as Australia’s oldest mother vine Pinot Noir planted in 1921. It is home to some of the first fine wines of Australia, and just five winemakers have left their mark over its 100-year history, maintaining its status as a benchmark of Hunter classics.