Bekker’s McLaren Vale Syrah 2023

This wine takes advantage of the Clarendon fruit that Becker’s have been able to obtain more recently, so in the end, three parcels making up 56% of the blend were from Clarendon and the remainder from Seaview in McLaren Vale. Typical of the Bekker’s style, it’s a wine of syrupy rich concentration, a velvety smooth texture and immense power all presented with classy definition and refinement. It has a silky smooth satiny finish with lifted spices complementing the darker plummy blackberry characters lurking within. As always with these wines, the oak treatment is impeccable, and the balance of new and older oak in the larger format puncheons works very well. It’s a dense, concentrated wine of real class.