Barossa Blood Ink Shiraz is making a bold show this Halloween with a limited-edition makeover, featuring striking new front and back labels designed to catch the eye and chill the spine. While the look is for Halloween, what’s inside the bottle remains the same as the usual Barossa Ink Shiraz, the UK’s top-selling premium Shiraz.
This 2024 vintage comes in at 14% ABV and continues to ride a wave of popularity, with Barossa Ink Shiraz growing at an impressive 9.8%, outpacing the wider wine category. It’s part of the broader Grant Burge label, which now stands as the second fastest-growing Australian premium wine brand in the UK by value. Grant Burge Wines, founded in 1988 in South Australia’s Barossa Valley, sources its fruit from both the Barossa and Eden Valleys. Once part of Accolade Wines, the estate now belongs to Vinarchy.
True to its name, this sinister Shiraz pours a blood-thick red so deep it could have been siphoned from the shadows. Its scent rises like a ghost from the glass, heavy with dark fruit, tempting and wicked. On the tongue, it glides smoothly, medium in weight, led by ripe, juicy fruit with barely a whisper of oak and not a fang of tannin in sight. It’s the kind of wine that charms the living and the undead alike, dangerously drinkable and made to haunt any gathering.
Barossa Blood Ink Shiraz is available from mid-September in Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Asda and Waitrose, priced at around £12.
