Bekkers McLaren Vale Syrah 2022
- 97
- $120
- Drink by: 2024-2044
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Toby and wife Emmanuelle continue to make some of the best and most regionally expressive wines from McLaren Vale. Syrah of course is a strong suit. In this case the blend also includes fruit from the rejuvenated Clarendon Estate Vineyard which appears to bring additional brightness and spices into an already vibrant high energy wine style. This one is a cracking good wine. Bright scented aromas of plum and cherry with a spicy lift. The palate is so seamlessly crafted with fine grainy tannins working seamlessly and the oak so well integrated. Cascades effortlessly across the palate. Love it.
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.
