TRINITY HILL SYRAH 2022

The Trinity Hill team know a thing or two about producing top Syrah and in a solid vintage like 2022 this quality shows all the way through their ranges. This is juicy and plump with plum fruits and spice.

Winery notes (2022 Vintage)
"The perfume/florals and spice of Syrah introduce a fruit-dominant, complex wine bursting with intense blueberry/raspberry/blackberry fruit flavours. Supple tannins, crisp acidity, and a touch of toasty oak, combine on the palate to produce succulent, lingering, spicy finish.

Released young to emphasize the beautiful perfume and fruit freshness, this wine can happily be enjoyed on its own or partnered with a wide range of foods, particularly red meat dishes, game, or pasta.

Weather conditions leading up to the 2022 harvest were typical of a classic Hawke’s Bay summer – long hot sunny days with moderate-cool nights. As Autumn arrived the season became cooler, with intermittent rain, however early warm ripening conditions produced a ripe, supple and delicious Syrah.

Several individual parcels from our three Gimblett Gravels vineyards were harvested separately and de-stemmed prior to fermentation. Gentle daily pumping over of the skins during fermentation helped extract a soft, complex structure. Extended maceration on skins following fermentation helped to further integrate and soften the tannins.

Following a period of ageing in stainless steel tanks and seasoned small- and large-format French oak barrels, the individual batches were blended to create the ideal marriage of components."

90/100 Cameron Douglas MS, January 2025 (2022 Vintage)
"Ripe, varietal with core of dark black currant and raspberry, some baked versions of the same, then some gentle wood smoke and baked earth qualities. Youthful and enticing. A dry wine touches the palate first then immediately flavours of dark plums and raspberry, then black currant and some baking spice layers from wood. There’s a whisper of reduction adding a stony flinty quality. Well made and ready to from day of purchase through 2028."

Reviews for the 2021 vintage below…

5 Stars & 94/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, December 2022 (2021 Vintage)
"Wonderfully fruited and perfumed, the wine shows dark plum, blueberry, floral, olive and toasted almond characters, leading to a gorgeously rounded palate that's ripe and flavoursome. Richly textured and silky, the wine offers terrific fruit purity as well as elegant complexity. At its best: now to 2031."

Top Reds for January 2023, Bob Campbell MW, The Real Review (2021 Vintage) 
“Bright, fresh and moderately concentrated red with dark cherry/berry, pepper, liquorice, cacao powder and spicy oak flavours. Youthful, accessible wine from a very favourable vintage. Classic syrah. Good value at this price."

4 Stars Michael Cooper (2021 Vintage)
"Still very youthful, the vibrantly fruity 2021 vintage was grown at three sites in the Gimblett Gravels and matured in stainless steel tanks and seasoned French oak casks, large and small. Deeply coloured, it is full-bodied, with strong, plummy, spicy flavours, fresh acidity and gentle tannins. Enjoyable young, it should be even better from 2024 onwards."

4 Stars Cuisine NZ Syrah Tasting, June 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"Medium-coloured in the glass with a complex and perfumed nose of blue, black and red berries alongside exotic spice. The palate is ripe and bold with nicely integrated oak and supple tannins and finishes long and succulent."