Cloudbreak Syrah 2024
$28, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This is a lovely wine to drink. It’s savoury, peppery and floral – it lives up to its Syrah moniker – and it’s well backed by cherry-plum fruit flavour, with smidgens of boysenberry, deli meat and woodsmoke in the mix too. In other words, everything here presents well. It’s a complex wine but also a hugely drinkable one. Net result is that it’s a pretty compelling proposition. 93 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.
