2022 AVA Syrah
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Tasting notes
Softly herbal and with a dusty black peppercorn essence, the 2022 AVA Syrah displays seductive, sanguine notes of hung sausage before black tea and spicy plum skin appear with wild, savory aromas. Still amazingly tight, the Syrah will need a few more years in the bottle but displays fine-grained tannins that will allow this beautiful Syrah to age gracefully for years. If you can find it, buy the entire case!
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Tamlyn Currin, jancisrobinson.com
Anthony Mueller, Wine Advocate
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From a single vineyard in Swartland. Extreme schist: 'it would literally break a plough'. Vinified in a 4,000-litre foudre. Spontaneous fermentation. Hard to describe this wine that changed every time I lifted the glass to my nose. One moment like chocolate and then like roast beef and then like peonies. It’s a shape-shifter with tannins that feel like the tonewood of a cello and then the grain of an old wood beam. Contrary and contradictory. It pinches then dances, breathes down your neck and pulls at your hand. It tastes of spice souks and florists and the fresh earth sweetness of carrots being lifted from the earth. The wine holds its sweet, deep-red fruit like a ring clasps its gem. (TC)
About the producer
Working with fruit from the Swartland, Piekenierskloof, Darling and Stellenbosch, Donovan Rall is one of South Africa’s top winemaking talents. He created his own label in 2008, while working alongside Eben Sadie, and now consults on various projects as well as making his exception Rall wines.