2018 Trinity Hill Homage Syrah, Hawkes Bay

This is a complex and very intense syrah that offers a deeply ripe yet fresh and clear-cut impression of blackberry and pepper, with other layers of spice, graphite and gently meaty notes. The palate is silky yet powerful with really finely layered tannins that cast a long, evenly built finish. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

98 points jamessuckling.com Mar 2021

Aromas are of a wine that is still youthful, complex and totally aluring, Forest berries and toasty barrel spices, dark berries layered between aromas of violets and licorice, stony soils, pepper and meat. As the wine opens up in glass it organically becomes more complex, but remains youthful and engaging. On the palate - complex and as equally primary as the nose suggests, dark fruits, raspberry and black currant, sweet meats and field mushroom, bracken and dark spices. An abundance of tannin and acidity - firm, chalky, ripe and resolved. Long finish, complex and young. No need to open till 2022 at the earliest, decant for service, will last in your cellar till 2030 - at least. So pleased to finally see this wine under screw top closure.

98 points Cameron Douglas MS camdouglasms.com June 2020

Medium deep crimson. Beautiful pure raspberry strawberry red cherry aromas with espresso/ sage/ white pepper notes. Inky textured wine with dense concentrated raspberry pastille, strawberry fruits, fine silky tannins and roasted chestnut espresso oak. Finishes chalky al dente firm with lovely mineral length and feathery tannin plume.

98 points Andrew Caillard MW