Giant Steps Yarra Valley Syrah 2015

Giant Steps Yarra Valley Syrah 2015Giant Steps is recognized as a global benchmark for cool climate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. They also make some very smart shiraz the 2015 Giant Steps Yarra Valley Syrah being a case in point. The winery was established in 1998, one year after founder Phil Sexton arrived in the Yarra Valley in search of ideal sites to produce wines of purity and finesse. "The 27yo vines are in full flower, this joining a distinguished band of Yarra Valley shirazes of

It is amazingly intense showing shaley minerally flavours with a hint of lime juice

A rather brooding nose of ripe raspberry countered with earth

a time of growth and expansion for the wine

with large sections of remnant vegetation maintained across the vineyard

Mouth-filling black fruits assault the senses with support from violets

"  Greg Duncan Powell

Supple palate entry with attractive varietal red fruits and lovely tension from the fine tannin profile

"Beautifully crafted and delineated cassis fruit

Has developed magnificently with bottle age

Varying depths of sandy loam topsoil overlie ironstone gravel with varying degrees of heavy clay subsoil

laced with grapey tannin and gorgeously varietal

perhaps lacking the length