Craggy Range “Le Sol” Syrah 2020
$105.00 USD
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Le Sol (French: the soil) is born of the renowned Gimblett Gravels viticultural appellation, with its gravelly soils attracting the sun in summer and insulating the vines in winter. The vines are planted in the stoniest parts of the vineyard to a heritage clone of Syrah brought to New Zealand in the 1840s. Intensively hand managed, the grapes reveal a deep dark Syrah with purple hues. Le Sol is always aromatically pure with a luscious yet elegant mid-palate and a distinctive fine tannin finish. aromatic with steely minerality while the rocky soils gives intensity of the fruit.
About the wine
REGION: New Zealand | Gimblett Gravels
GRAPES: 100% Syrah
PH: 3.62
ACIDITY: 6.1 g/l
ABV: 13.5%
AGING: Aged 17 months in French oak barriques, 38% new
Deep, dark garnet with a burgundy hue. Aromas of ripe boysenberry and blueberry are intertwined with the savoury complexityof black pepper and slate. The palate is seamless and voluptuous with mouth-filling fruit. Fine, graphite tannins come racingthrough and give the wine unique persistence.
This wine pairs best with wild game dishes.
These grapes were hand harvested. 80% of the grapes were destemmed , 20% left in whole clusters, before undergoing fermentation in open-top French oak vessels and stainless steel tanks. The juice is then innoculated and aged in 35% new french oak barrels for 17 months.
10 – 15 years from vintage.
While the season was wet through the Spring, it was dry and warm through ripening period, yielding an iconic vintage.
What The Critics Say...
Bright and glossy with subtle and elegant spices, with more red and blue fruit than black. Diffusive and chalky tannins dwell upon the red cherries and plums on the palate, with white pepper and flowers in the streamlined, linear finish. Quite engaging now, but can hold, too. JamesSuckling.com
