Bekkers Clarendon Syrah Single Vineyard Selection 2024
- 98
- $300
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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Entirely made up of fruit from the Bekkers Clarendon Vineyard Estate. Take what you think you know of McLaren Vale Shiraz and be prepared to wipe the board clean for this delicate, poised and floral driven Syrah. Toby and Emmanuelle have always had a talent for coaxing the lifted aromatics of their fruit, this is case in point. Punchy with pink peppercorn, sumac and Lilac, a wine with wondrous sophistication and elegance from its perfume to the soft curves of silky tannins and swirling natural and elongated acidity. There is a waft of winter pine, adding further fragrance and freshness, some oolong tea bitterness that plays well with the impeccably ripe fruit. This is utter class and a jewel of a wine. Drink now with black truffle anything. Or cellar for 8-12 years further.
Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.
