Luke Lambert Syrah 2023.
Lambert’s nebbiolo gets all the attention but his syrah is as good or better. This 2023 release sits in a beautiful place; it’s both bold and elegant at once, its black olive notes inlaid with florals and spice, its ripe red/black cherry characters shot through with smoked meat and mineral. There are classical forces at play here. This is a cool climate syrah of both complexity and clarity.
AU $48, 13.5% alcohol, DIAM (10) cork closure.
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.
