The Rumball Vintage Sparkling Shiraz has been made from 100% Coonawarra Shiraz. The best base wines are set aside each year for a small vintage tiraging. The 1997 Vintage is the first of the vintage wines and is now released. The Vintage Sparkling Shiraz wines are the main wines entered in Australian Wine Shows.

“Juicy fruit and integrity. Mild in an attractive sense though the acidity is quite marked. Meaty, racy and transparent. Firm, readable fruit. Fresh though not desperately long. Neat but not exciting.” – 16/20 points, Jancis Robinson

“Glorious deep purple-red; a complex bouquet, with fruit and oak both evident; the grippy tannins on the palate come as a shock; puzzling why they were not fined more. Screwcap.” – 93 points, James Halliday, 2005

"It has a slight earthiness on the nose, a touch of wild hedgerow, along with damson, Doris plum, cassis and violets. Very pretty and engaging. The palate is medium-bodied, good structure with some very fine tannins, dark plum, bilberry and boysenberry towards the almost conservative finish that beckons a year or two cellaring. Very fine. " – 90 points, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

''07 RP-92: "A Chartreuse-like note of herbal and floral distillates, with prominent buddleia and wisteria rises from the glass, ushering in a luscious palate suffused with ripe peach, bitter-sweet floral perfume, high-toned, resinous herbs, peach kernel bitterness, and a nearly ineffable, tactile sense of minerality" - 92 points, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate.     

“ Came top of a fiercely contested and high quality '05 shiraz class at the National Wine Show '06. Perfect texture and structure based around fine, ripe tannins and vibrant fruit gave the wine the extra touch of finesse. ” -  96points, James Halliday

''05 JH-96: Restrained elegance and length; grapefruit, nectarine and melon with a near-invisible web of oak; extreme length.
'06 WS-91: Ripe and broad, yet tight enough to remain balanced and elegant as the spicy pear, quince and smoky fig flavors spill through the long, refined finish. – 91 points, Wine Spectator Magazine

“Rich, multi-layered cassis, blackcurrant fruit, oak and tannins, all seamlessly woven into a full-bodied, classic Coonawarra Cabernet .”- 94 points, James Halliday