Bekkers McLaren Vale Syrah Grenache 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Bekkers McLaren Vale Syrah Grenache 2024.

Bekkers McLaren Vale Syrah Grenache 2024
$90, 14.0% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

The combination of shiraz and grenache grapes is a traditional Australian wine style, responsible for some of the best red wines ever produced in Australia, particularly in a McLaren Vale context. The team behind Bekkers is determined to continue this tradition to the highest possible standards.

I looked hard but I could not find a single kink or remote cause for concern. This release is a svelte, seamless beauty. Its motor hums with both red and black berries but the body of it feels, from start to finish, so perfectly polished and, accordingly, satisfying. Earth, dark chocolate, sweet flowery herbs, iodine, dewy red roses and peppercorn notes put on a delicious, soft-hearted show before velvety, ultra-fine tannin puts a ribbon on the finish. You’re on the right side of history here; this wine is fabulous. 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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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