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De Bortoli Yarra Valley Estate Syrah 2010

June 20, 2013

De Bortoli Estate Syrah 2010 (Yarra Valley, Vic)
13%, Screwcap, $35
Source: Sample
www.debortoli.com.au

This is, unquestionably, the best Shiraz/Syrah I’ve tasted with a De Bortoli label on it.

The winemaking reads more like a $50 red than something you can pick up sub $30 (if you look around).

Hand picked, hand sorted, with both whole bunches and destemmed fruit making it into the ferment, foot and hand plunged for 20 days of natural ferment, bottled with no acid additions. Gravity racked.

Great handling.

Lovely wine too. Hints of mulch and undergrowth but not unripe, with stalky, clove whole bunch overtones without losing any shape or looking herbal. Wonderfully tannin driven, finely meaty palate is ripe but contained, cool and spicy yet also openly red fruited.

Wonderful, cool but ripe Shiraz/Syrah at a very very fair price. Buy it.

Drink: 2013-2020
Score: 18.5/20
Would I buy it? Yes

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ozwinereview
June 23, 2013 at 11:34 AM
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Well look at that – I'm consistent!
http://www.ozwinereview.com/2012/07/de-bortoli-syrah-2010-and-more-de-borts.html



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    At 18 I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, doing a degree that I didn't really like, and a liquor shop seemed like fun. Needless to say I discovered wine, my uni degree morphed into something completely different and wine/beer took over my life.

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