Bekkers McLaren Vale Syrah Grenache 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Bekkers Syrah Grenache 2023.

Bekkers McLaren Vale Syrah Grenache 2023
$90, 14.0% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

An historic blend has been brought beautifully to life here. The complexity, the general finesse, the insistence and the length; all facets here sing from an elite songbook. It tastes of undergrowth and saltbush, raspberry and plum, rust and aromatic herbs, with a gentle sway of vanillin then adding a soft, creamy, textural element – but no more than that. There’s an insistence to this wine, and an impressive spread of grapey, silty tannin too. There are no tricks: the seduction is born straight out of the wine’s inherent quality. 95 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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