The Lane Vineyard Estate Syrah 2022

Feel the harmony present in this wine where every individual element combines oh so effortlessly and so elegantly. The Syrah – aka Shiraz – grape now shares top red grape billing in the Adelaide Hills and it’s easy to see why. Works the spice and lively ripe fruit qualities achieved in the Hills’ cool climate and there’s that harmony combining plum, black berries, earth, arresting florals, Aussie bush and smart oak, the latter the result of 20 months in French oak. Oak has been slurped up and combined bringing solid integration and overall balance. Makes for an engaging, smooth textural, complex flow that is spice-fuelled with a lively gentle pepperiness. Hard to ask for more unless you are considering cellaring.