Craggy Range Le Sol 2020
Bouteille - 75cl
Date d'arrivée estimée : 3-4 mois
- Millésime2020
- CouleurRouge
- ProducteurCraggy Range
- PaysNouvelle-Zélande
- RégionHawke's Bay
- Sous-RégionGimblett Gravels
- Format BouteilleBouteille - 75cl
- Degré d'alcool13.5
- LWIN13531942020
- Note Moyenne des Critiques4.5★★★★★★★★★★
Avis des critiques de vin
Haunting, complex syrah, with layers of flavours that include violet, floral, blackcurrant, dark cherry, black pepper and nutty oak flavours. Approachable now but with obvious cellaring potential. An intense, powerful wine with a lingering finish. Elegance on a grand scale.
- Fenêtre de dégustation: 2022 - 2040
- Nom du critique: Bob Campbell MW
- Date de l'avis: avril 2022
The 2020 Syrah Le Sol is bloody good. It offers the drinker an appetizing raspberry-fruited opening. It's a succulent and suave initially, but on the finish it opens a new chapter, showing the tension and sinew of whole clusters fermentation (40%), driving the wine forward with persistence and energy. While ripe and having the right amount of puppy fat to get your teeth into, this wine also shows freshness, cool climate spice and lift. The tannins are abundant yet resolved.
- Fenêtre de dégustation: 2023 - 2033
- Nom du critique: Rebecca Gibb MW
- Date de l'avis: janvier 2023
One of two Craggy Range wines to join the Place de Bordeaux this year alongside the Pinot Noir-based Aroha. Meaty and wild, a sense of roasted meat, smoky and deliberate with a balsamic element too. Bay leaf, cooking herbs and some graphite touches - lots of expression. A full and bold style, but so juicy and succulent, really sucks the cheeks in, makes the mouth water with strawberry, red cherry, plum and raspberry fruit. It's smooth and penetrating but it has such a lovely crushed velvet texture, slightly chalky but full of life and vigour. I like this expression, feels vibrant but also with quite a lot of tension at this point. Nice detail on show in the smoke and florality but all very soft letting the vibrancy show through at this point.
- Fenêtre de dégustation: 2022 - 2030
- Nom du critique: Georgina Hindle
- Date de l'avis: août 2022
Deep and concentrated, touch of reduction on opening as is fairly typical with Syrah. Earthy overtones, bright acidities, delicate campfire smoke, spiralling upwards through the glass, opening to show earth, dried roses, raspberry puree, liqourice, game and spiced plum. Less floral than this grape often is from the northern Rhone, less powerful than a classic Australian version, this has its own distinct character, and is utterly charming. Harvest April 5-12. 56% whole bunch, 38% new oak.
- Fenêtre de dégustation: 2022 - 2026
- Nom du critique: Jane Anson
- Date de l'avis: juillet 2022