Iggy H & C Syrah 2021
$75, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Eden Valley.
This is a herbal and slightly ashen expression of shiraz/syrah. It’s a medium-weight, fragrant, sinewy wine with violet, game, blueberry and sweet plum flavours threaded with aromatic herbs and leather. There’s a laciness to this wine. A finesse. It’s expressive, fine-grained and feels a bit wild in parts but there’s certainly pleasure to be had here. 92 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
