Cambria Tepusquet Vineyard Syrah 2022
14.2% alcohol, cork, Santa Maria Valley/US.
This is an interesting style of syrah. It has a warmth but it also has a delicacy. It’s spicy, red- and black-cherried, and boysenberried, but it also has wild flings of herbs, peppers, and woodsy spice notes. It’s elegant, complex and good. 92 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.
