Bekker’s McLaren Vale Syrah 2023
- 97
- $120
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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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.
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.
