Salomon Estate The Verve Red 2023

From Austrian winemaking legend Dr Bert Salomon’s Southern hemisphere endeavour, a superbly sited vineyard overlooking Lake Alexandrina, the lower reaches of the Murray River and in the distance the Great Southern Ocean, all of which water-cool and air-condition the vines during the ripening season. The Verve represents this vineyard’s lighter red wine styling, a chillable red combo in which the varietal composition changes year to year, this 2023 outing 70% Syrah with 15% each of Grenache and Touriga, the latter two offering a flowering native bush fragrance, the palate echoing the aromas with light and easy red fruit flavours. It’s all very juicy and morishly drinkable, though lingers a bit as you sip and there’s a dusting of baking spice and white pepper – thank the Syrah for that! Clever blending has resulted in a very modern red wine.

Tony Love

Journalist at Winepilot

Tony is best known for his 10 years as News Corp’s National Wine Writer, with weekly columns in major metropolitan mastheads throughout Australia including The Adelaide Advertiser, The Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Melbourne Herald Sun. He continues to write feature articles and columns for all the major Australian wine media publications. Tony has also worked as a restaurant reviewer, section editor, book editor, digital content provider, journalism teacher and was named Wine Communicators of Australia 2018 Legend of the Vine (SA). Find out more about Tony at tonylove.com.au

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