Bekkers Syrah 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Bekkers Syrah 2023. Bekkers is one of Australia's Top Wineries.

Bekkers Syrah 2023
$120, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

This wine is neat and tidy but it also feels imposing. Just quietly, it’s also an example of gorgeousness in a glass. It tastes of chocolate-coated hazelnuts, fresh plums, blackberry, toast and twiggy herbs, the latter contributing to a sinewy backbone, in a context of ripeness. This is a seriously special wine. It’s long, complex, plush and structural at once. Bekkers has steadily become one of Australia’s best wine producers and this wine is Bekkers at its best. 97 points.

Campbell Mattinson

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.

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