Frankland Estate Isolation Ridge Vineyard Syrah 2023
- 94
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2036
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There is something about the kind of lively spiciness that Isolation Ridge Vineyard always brings to its wines. It’s a potent and exhilarating feature once again in the 2024 Syrah with an ever-present, intense black pepperiness on show. Too much? Maybe for some, but for my money it’s showing its cool climate credentials and it adds a mighty fresh and lively adjunct to the wine’s loganberry, black cherry, blackberry, briar and spice-laden fruits. The pepperiness provides a lot of the energy to the wine. The middle palate is plush in red fruits with a sour cherry tartness together with a whisper of woodsmoke and earthiness. It is nicely finished in firm tannins.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
