Fragrant and spicy with dark plum, blackberry and blueberry, violets, red peppercorns, grilled meat and whetstone. The palate is medium-bodied and silky with a good core of dark fruit, fine-grained tannins and bright acidity. Savory and peppery with plenty of freshness and tension. A classy cool climate syrah. Points: 95/100
Full ruby with a vibrant purple rim. Mulberry fruit, cured meat, and mixed ground peppercorns on the nose. The palate has density and presence without being overbearing or weighty. Black and purple fruits spill across the tongue, with dark spices, hints of cured meat, and a lift of violets adding contrast to the sensations. Tannins are fine and dusty, carrying it long and ensuring the finish has a wonderful open fan to its character. Points: 94/100
Vibrant and peppery, it speaks of vivid purple colours – crushed violets, black cherry, blueberry yoghurt, boysenberry – with an extra dimension of pomegranate and gently smoked meat. A moreish, medium-bodied style with chewy tannins, offering the best of two worlds, with a fruity and alluring palate lifted by sweet oak spice, alluring fruit sweetness, and a floral ylang-ylang lift. It’s enough to make you ponder that cool-climate Syrah is a damn good thing. Points: 95/100
This Mornington Peninsula Syrah shows the region’s innate ability to produce depth and elegance with the grape. The same cool climate beauty the Peninsula brings to Pinot can be tasted here. Brings florals in lifted sweet violet to the aroma together with cherry, raspberry and plum fruit, white pepper, anise, herbs. It’s a full on liveliness of expression, super charged in peppery-laced spices and red berries, medium bodied and fine tannin-ed. The palate looks a little deeper with a cosy garden herbs and undergrowth character emerging, but the overall impression is of a just-picked kind of freshness carrying ripe berry fruits and spices long and deep across the middle palate through to the finish. Points: 94/100
A region renowned for its pinot noir and chardonnay, yet syrah can come along and steal the show. This is excellent. Floral and spicy, full of dark plums and baking spices with wafts of charcuterie and a hint of meaty reduction. The fuller-bodied palate is coated with beautiful tannins and fine acidity. Youthful and charming today; more complexity to come in another year or so. Points: 96/100
