Bekkers McLaren Vale Syrah Grenache 2024
- 95
- $90
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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Despite the coolish and quite difficult vintage, this blend of sixty-eight percent Syrah and thirty-two percent Grenache has emerged pretty well. Good richness and depth of flavor. It’s a blend of vineyards from the Clarendon, Seaview, and Blewitt Springs regions within McLaren Vale. Each region brings a character creating a whole that’s far greater than the sum of the parts. Once again, the oak is all aged French and a small amount of concrete tank is also used in the maturation. The aim is to achieve a balance allowing the fruit to fully express itself, which it does in spades. Ripe, spicy, plummy fruits on the nose and a palate that displays some firmish tannins which probably come from that late burst of heat in March before picking. Yet it retains a balance and poise and almost an effortless graceful line through to the finish.
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.
