Streicker Bridgeland Block Syrah 2020
- 90
- $45
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Impressively structured and one of those wines that welcomes a decant to fully loosen up. Brings a dark savouriness to the glass with aromas of briar, acacia, earth, black fruits and undergrowth. Expands as it opens on the palate, revealing a wild fruited loganberry, bramble fruit-scape. Tannins can be grippy and I would like to see how it ages but, in the meantime, there’s no denying it has presence and would probably love to meet a barbecued steak or roast lamb with the trimmings.
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.
