Aramis The Heir Syrah 2015
$80, 14.5%, DIAM cork, McLaren Vale.
Ten years old and still in the best of drinking zones. This is the sweet smell of success. It’s a creamy, plummy, generous wine with complex earth and leather bottle-age characters, followed by a long, smooth, even-handed finish. Choc-mint notes flash across both the nose and the palate and at all times this wine seems both balanced and satisfying, not to mention impressive. 93 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.
