Aramis O'Aristocratis Sparkling Syrah 2005
$95, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, McLaren Vale.
This was made in 2005 and disgorged in 2011, which presumably means that it’s been ageing in bottle, on cork, for the past 14 years. That’s an extraordinary commitment of time. It tastes creamy, coffeed and blackberried with leather and dark chocolate notes threaded throughout. It’s soft, and mellow, but it still punches out plenty of flavour. 90 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.
