2024 Easthope Home Block Syrah

"In the glass, it’s a deep garnet with electric crimson edges. Aromatically, it’s immediate and captivating—blueberry, lavender, aniseed, and a flicker of black pepper. The palate is vivid and finely structured: lush fruit threaded with tannin and tension. A Syrah that’s expressive and elegant on its own, yet built to sing alongside beef, lamb, or wild game. -- From our elevated inland vineyard at Mangatahi, the Home Block Syrah is always a little different—thanks to its 165-metre altitude, north-facing slope, and deep red gravel soils. It’s a site that delivers distinction year after year. In 2024, nature made us work for it. Spring came late and windblown, with a poor fruit set slashing yields. But the payoff came in summer: a long, warm ripening that concentrated flavour into every small, dark berry."

"A core of dark purple and ruby hues lead to a bouquet of fresh and baked raspberry, dark plums, fragrant spices and mild toasty barrel qualities with a whisper of wood smoke. Delicious on the palate with a core of dark red fruit flavours and fine savoury spice qualities. Violets and black currant, toasty barrel spices of clove and vanilla all leading to a long and conmplex finish."