Bekkers McLaren Vale Single Vineyard Clarendon Syrah 2024
- 98
- $300
- Drink by: 2026-2046
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This single-vineyard wine from Clarendon offers a quite beautiful interpretation of McLaren Vale Syrah. The aromas show more red and blue fruit characters with lifted, spicy nuances. It has been deliberately handled to create a wine of elegance and poise, relying less on the opulence of McLaren Vale and more on the inherent, deeply textured fruit characters evident on both nose and palate. It all produces the strikingly seductive svelte palate. It’s a wine of impeccable breeding that gathers and builds on the palate through to a sustained, long finish. Quite a beautiful wine.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
