The Lane Vineyard Adelaide Hills Estate Syrah 2022
- 96
- $60
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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Beautiful example of an Adelaide Hills Syrah, with that cooler climate influence clearly pointing to the use of the word Syrah in the wine. The aromas are spicy, black fruited, dark chocolate, and a slight toast and cinnamon combination. Palate offers plenty. It’s rich and textured, albeit in that medium-bodied structure with the fine, chalky tannins and the well-applied oak helping to focus through to a long finish. In fact, it had about 20 months in French oak, but it’s been neatly integrated and seamlessly managed to produce an excellent wine.
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.
