2019 Craggy Range Le Sol Syrah 1.5L Magnum

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Critic tasting note: “Craggy’s premium Syrah is a lucid, complete bottling with plenty of cellaring potential. It opens with baked cherry and currant fruit, sage, cracked pepper, licorice and tar, with a spine of chocolaty oak. There is power on the palate, framed in savory, powdery tannins amid the fresh fruit and pepper flavors. Drink through 2036. Christina Pickard” -93/100,Wine Enthusiast

Le Sol (French: the soil) is born of the renowned Gimblett Gravels viticultural appellation, with its gravelly soils attracting the sun in summer and insulating the vines in winter. The vines are planted in the stoniest parts of the vineyard to a heritage clone of Syrah brought to New Zealand in the 1840s. Intensively hand managed, the grapes reveal a deep dark Syrah with purple hues. Le Sol is always aromatically pure with a luscious yet elegant mid-palate and a distinctive fine tannin finish.

APPEARANCE Deep and dark with a purple hue.

AROMA An overwhelming presence that suggests this wine will live to be iconic. The nose is flush with mulberry, violets, lavender and cocoa.

PALATE The palate, whilst obviously young and vibrant with taut tannins, is complex, deep and intoxicating – so much dark, black fruit, changing with every mouthfeel.

GRAPES/BLEND 100% Syrah

VINIFICATION Open top french cuve and closed top stainless.

MATURATION 17 months in French oak barriques.