POCW - Heathcote Syrah 2020

Tasting Note

This wine is a product of a long running collab with Alain and Maxime Graillot, initially made by Luke Lambert, and is where Rob Walters began his wine producing journey. Today its the team at Place of Changing Winds who make the wine. Theres an amazing elegance to the palate, which is soft and smooth, without being jammy. Its a ripe, luxurious wine showing great promise, with a hint of meat and pepper savouriness alongside the ripe fruit. Theres a sleek ripe side to the wine but also some good definition and focus. Very fine, doing a really difficult job of balancing ripeness and freshness really well.

94 points, Jamie Goode, Wine Anorak

"Its an incredibly fresh wine, both in style and in presentation. Its juicy and refreshing, and for that alone it feels very different to the Heathcote norm. Intricate, lacy, fine-grained, grapey; all these words apply. Cherry, plum, sultana and boysenberry are all evident, as is earth, sweet spice, tobacco, meat and stem. Its a wine with many positive but its best aspect is its finish, which curls out like smoke rising from an intensely defined source. Were in good days now but better days yet are ahead. This is an elegant, intricate, filigreed delight."

94+ points, Campbell Mattinson, Winefront

95 RR