Peter Dredge’s Syrah-Pinot may not have happened were it not for Tasmania’s devastating 2019 bushfires. With no single-varietal Pinot slated for release, Meadowbank have let us down easy here with a lip-smacking, juicy blend of 45% Pinot Noir and 55% Syrah. The two, given the Nouveau treatment, make happy bedfellows. Fruit is drawn from Estate-grown vines planted in both 1987 and 2015; each variety was fermented, separately, in the same fashion: 50% carbonic maceration for seven days, followed by destemming and an additional two days on skins and 50% whole-berry, natural ferment for 10 days on skins. Maturation took place in old French oak casks for four months before the total was racked, blended and bottled—unfined, unfiltered and with minimal sulphur.