De Bortoli Phi Syrah Grenache 2022
- 95
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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De Bortoli have gone to Heathcote in Victoria to source the fruit for this wine. It’s a region that has a distinctive character which suits these varieties. That slightly ironstone, ferruginous influence balances the medium weight Syrah and Grenache perfectly with their bright red fruits, high-end aromatics and subtle rose petal notes. The palate is gentle at first but then accelerates and opens through to a very long finish. Those chalky tannins, control and the subtle, understated use of oak sit comfortably. Here is a wine you could sit back and enjoy even now, but it does have a little cellaring time without any problem.
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.
