Vidal Legacy Gimblett Gravels Hawke's Bay Syrah 2018

Vidal Legacy Gimblett Gravels Hawke's Bay Syrah 2018French oak Dark berry & plum Violet & herb notes Chalky tannins "The wine shows gorgeous sweet berry aromas with cake spice, dried herb, cedar and vanilla nuances on the nose. It's wonderfully focused on the palate, delivering bright fruit flavours combined with refined texture and grainy tannins, finishing persistent and delightfully dry. An elegant rendition offering seductive complexity and sophistication, needing time to show its graceful power

• French oak
• Dark berry & plum
• Violet & herb notes
• Chalky tannins

"The wine shows gorgeous sweet berry aromas with cake spice, dried herb, cedar and vanilla nuances on the nose. It's wonderfully focused on the palate, delivering bright fruit flavours combined with refined texture and grainy tannins, finishing persistent and delightfully dry. An elegant rendition offering seductive complexity and sophistication, needing time to show its graceful power and richness. At its best: 2022 to 2033" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Sept 2020

This enticingly fragrant single vineyard Syrah from the Omahu Gravels vineyard in the Gimblett Gravels winegrowing district shows aromatics of violet, blueberry, herb garden, and underlying spice. The concentrated and refined palate of dark berry and plum combines with savoury oak complexity. Elegantly balanced, and finely textured with chalky tannins this wine finishes long. Dictinct and age-worthy.

The 2018 vintage from the Omahu Gravels Vineyard has produced a perfumed and finely styled Syrah. A very warm season with above average growing degree days well above the long term average combined with below-average rainfall set the vineyards up well. Early season "green harvesting" to reduce yields and improve quality, combined with meticulous canopy management throughout the season rewarded us with ideal ripeness, flavour, development, concentration and tannin maturity.

Planted in 1998 the Omahu Gravels Vineyard is situated in the premium Gimblett Gravels winegrowing district where the soil is made up of relatively recent alluvial deposits of gravel with varying degrees of silt and sand. The naturally free-draining, low vigour and “lean” sites combined with detailed vineyard knowledge has produced a Syrah showing perfume, texture and underlying power.