Place of Changing Winds Syrah No 2 2022
Place of Changing Winds Syrah No 2 2022
This wine is a blend of Heathcote (66%) and Harcourt (34%) Syrah. Even though this is our least expensive wine, it gets the same attention to detail as all our other cuvées, and even here, the wine has serious intensity, good tannins and ageworthiness. We think it’s a bargain. About 70% whole bunches were used, and the wine was matured in a range of casks (primarily large Stockinger) for the first year before resting in tank for the rest of its maturation. It was bottled in late December 2023. It’s a spicy, cool Syrah/Shiraz that will drink well young but can be aged with confidence.
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“It feels friendly and easy drinking in its way, despite also holding a sense of inkiness and depth. Dark cherry, ripe plum, choc-liquorice with swathes of eucalyptus, dried green herb, pepperberry, lifted myrtle-like pungency – all attractive, all just so. A smooth ride, a pleasure zone red of evenness and general syrah-isms. Cool as.” 92 points, Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
“‘Vibrant and lifted fresh red berries and purple flowers,’ wrote [Ben] Mullen, giving this a top-six result. ‘Medium bodied on the palate, it had flow of tannin from fruit and oak with the fruits flowing to great drive and tension of acidity. Had some real savoury elements to the wine also, fresh crushed leaves and autumnal vibes to it showing from the whole bunch. Good weight, texture and length. Such a well balanced rendition of style of syrah. Lovely.’” Young Guns of Wine, younggunsofwine.com