Michael Hall Mount Torrens Syrah 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Michael Hall Mount Torrens Syrah 2024.

Michael Hall Mount Torrens Syrah 2024
AU$60, 13.3% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

Only 845 bottles were made of this (not dozens). It saw 15% whole bunches; the 2022 release saw 94% whole bunches, and the 2023 saw 85%. This difference, as I pointed out on The Winefront, has as much to do with the demands and characters of each season rather than a specific philosophical or style direction.

The berry flavours here are more red-and-blue than black; the floral notes give the wine plenty of lift; and there's a general impression throughout of craft and finesse. This wine is so fresh, so buoyant, and so pretty: its jellied fruit flavour feels both deep and lively, though its splay of fine-grained tannin and spicy, meaty notes give the wine both a firmness and a seriousness. It’s classy stuff, start to finish.

94 points – Campbell Mattinson.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

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