Description Craig Stansborough and Mark Slade started Purple Hands in southern Barossa 2006 from humble beginnings, making just 100 dozen the first vintage. Today "Purple Hands captures the purity and elegance that is possible when the raw materials are in good hands" Dave Brookes, The Halliday Wine Companion. Of this Shiraz, Dave says: "Deep purple-red in the glass and packed full of ripe satsuma plum, blueberry and boysenberry notes on a bed of exotic spice, purple floral tones, licorice and earth. 91 points.”