SYRAH
MAX ALLEN
Future Makers, 2010
The star here is the Ngeringa syrah, the core of which comes from the Nirne vineyard: bright and brittle scents of purple berries and crackling undergrowth lead on to a juicy, sappy mouthful of elegant red, with lean black tannins and plenty of room to build in the bottle. It's a triump for Erinn and Janet.
NGERINGA SYRAH 2006
CAMBELL MATTINSON
The Wine Front, 30 Sept 08
91 Points. Excellent complexity and balance. Lovely light- to medium-bodied wine. Sour cherries, meat, smoke, spice and sweet raspberries. Excellent brightness and follow through. Love the acidity here. Should perform well in the cellar.
NICK STOCK
Penguin Wine Guide 2010
Super exotic whole bunchy aromatic lift here, with complex Eastern spices - really gragrant and attractive. Red fruits and cherries sit fleshy throughout and the finish has a flurry of fine, savoury tannin leaving a long, svelte trail of bright, musky red flavour. Balanced and etherial, elegant syrah.
NGERINGA SYRAH 2007
JAMES HALLIDAY
Aust Wine Companion 2011
93 points
MAX ALLEN
Gourmet Traveller Wine Aug 10
A gorgeous red from the biodynamic Ngeringa vineyard is the taut, sinewy, peppery 2007 Ngeringa Syrah which probably needs a couple of years in the cellar to reveal its true beauty.
PHILIP WHITE
The Independent Weekly, 29 Oct 10
"92++ points... delivered with a mercifully subtle level of alcohol, this delightful, polite, elegant Syrah is a kind reminder of the sorts of vinous things that occurred before the wine business was industrialised and buggerised with petrochemicals, syrup and overt alcohol. this is more akin to the gentler wines of the Rhone Gorge, and will become even more so if you can manage to cellar some for five or six years." Download review here
TIM WHITE
Financial Review, 13 Aug 10
94 points. Sweet-meaty and bacon fat pongy to begin but opens up with air and gets white pepper spicy, with sniff of pomegranate. Austere at first but fleshes out becoming sweet-sharp and black-fruited. There's some Stilton-like older wood characters (all good) and that pepper again. Sapid and mouth watering, almost Tuscan.
The Adelaide Review Hot 100
Highly perfumed with violets and chalk. Mint and herbal notes support the rose petal spice. Rose petal jelly on the palate with an elegant, savoury finish.
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