Quartz Hill

Syrah

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  Vintage 2012
  96 points www.winecompanion.com.au

Once upon a time 'elegant' was a backhanded compliment for an Australian red wine; a wine like this illustrates how far we've come. It's all pepper, dried spice and violets on the nose and meaty boysenberry and cherry in the mouth, with a lick of cedary French oak as a finishing touch. It's perfumed, not heavy, is laced with fine tannin and curls out impressively through the finish. A star wine is born.

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  Vintage 2012
  95 points www.winefront.com.au

Perfumed, well-fruited, surrounded by fine-grained tannin, elegant and not short on class. This is a wine to make you stand up and take note. Boysenberry, cedarwood, spicy cured meats and fresh, mouthwatering cherry. Everything pulls together. It’s not dense or heavy and yet it’s seductive. And lengthy.