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Deep in color and brooding in the glass. The modern edition of Syrah Astralis is a wonderfully complex offering that delivers powerful roasted meat, oregano, blackberry, cocoa and iron aromas with a balanced dose of new oak. Dry and fully flavored, it showcases a muscular palate rippling with coal dust, baked earth and dried spices with excellent volume and extract. Thanks to a core of youthful tannins, it tightens up for a long, linear finish. The 2020 is a great wine but clearly needs time to show its best.
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Deep in color and brooding in the glass. The modern edition of Syrah Astralis is a wonderfully complex offering that delivers powerful roasted meat, oregano, blackberry, cocoa and iron aromas with a balanced dose of new oak. Dry and fully flavored, it showcases a muscular palate rippling with coal dust, baked earth and dried spices with excellent volume and extract. Thanks to a core of youthful tannins, it tightens up for a long, linear finish. The 2020 is a great wine but clearly needs time to show its best.
Lots of dried flowers and red peppercorns with blackberries and blueberries. So perfumed and pretty. Full-bodied and reserved with tight tannins and a focused palate. Extremely long and intense. Compacted structure. Drink after 2024.
Lots of dried flowers and red peppercorns with blackberries and blueberries. So perfumed and pretty. Full-bodied and reserved with tight tannins and a focused palate. Extremely long and intense. Compacted structure. Drink after 2024.
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.