Mike Press Wines Syrah 2024
$36, 13.5%, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
Beautiful wine. Perfectly balanced. Cherry-plum flavours – emphasis on the plum – with sweet spice, cedarwood, potpourri and earth notes all contributing positively. Tannin is fine and well-placed, aromatics are lively, and the finish is tangy, refreshing and well-sustained. This wine is joyous from all angles. 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.
