Church Road 1 Series Syrah 2020

Great wine from a great vintage in Hawke's Bay, which translates into ripe, dark, spiced fruit characters in this Syrah, which forms part of the stable of wines in Church Road's 1 Series.  

Winemaker Chris Scott describes it as a "Wine built around a core of brambly dark berry fruit, carrying lifted aromatic notes of violets and mulling spices, along with complexities of new leather and subtle toasty, savoury oak undertones. The palate is fine and long with a fine grained tannin structure and excellent mid palate flesh giving a very even, long and seamless mouthfeel. While approachable now, good Hawkes' Bay Syrah will age gracefully for 20 years of more."

Here here. A keeper.