A Hawke’s Bay wine, from an excellent dry and mild season. This wine, from their outstanding range of Syrah, is released in its youth, emphasising the perfume and coltish fruit flavours. I agree – it is aromatically intense, with an emphasis on glossy, sweet plum, bramble, boysenberry fruit, offset by pepper, tapenade and graphite with a floral lift of violets. Fruit-focussed but with enough structure of supple tannin and balanced acidity to offer depth and length. Savoury and spicy towards the finish, with a nibble of pithy dryness and good persistence. 90pts
Trinity Hill Syrah 2021
