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From a cooler, wetter vintage. This shows a spicy and gently creamy edge to the nose with ripe red and dark plums on offer, as well as blueberries and blackberries. Berry pastry, too. The palate has a smoothly composed feel with plush, seamless tannins carrying ripe blackberries, blueberries and dark plums, as well as spiced chocolate and espresso. Try from 2024.
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Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate
James Suckling
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The 2017 Astralis Syrah is a very fine wine. It is not a big wine. Perhaps its reputation for being a big, extracted wine is a misnomer these days. It has intention and drive and clarity and length—and the length of flavor is so long that it allows reassessment over and over again. It has cassis and blackberry, raspberry pip and salted licorice. It is perfumed and balanced, and it takes time to develop. Unctuous. Satisfying. Supple. Attractive. Beautiful. Eminently balanced. A beauty.
About the producer
Based in the McLaren Vale, Clarendon Hills has been one of the pioneering names in Australian wine. Focusing on single-site expressions of individual grapes, working with old dry-farmed vineyards, it has become one of the world’s leading producers, best known for its iconic Astralis Shiraz.