If you’ve ever visited Seppelt at Great Western then the chances are that you’re familiar with the Garden Gully vineyard. It’s on the main highway almost neighbouring Seppelt, and Garden Gully’s old weathered vines (planted in the 1950s) have always looked like likely suspects. Problem is (I’m told) that it’s a drastically frost-prone vineyard.
This Jamsheed version of a Garden Gully syrah had 50 percent whole bunches included in the ferment, a 40 day maceeration, was fermented with wild yeast, matured in all-French oak (only 20 percent of it new) and was racked by gravity. Naturally, it was bottled unfined and unfiltered. This is beautiful handling, to say the least.
It’s a beautifully textured, medium-weight, fully-ripened, silken wine. A wine of real class, and balance. A knockout in many ways - for its quality. Dark cherries and plums, sap and spice. A touch of earthiness, and a touch of leatheriness too. I love its length, it’s weight, the feel of it on my tongue. It doesn’t over-reach, it just ‘is’, Drink : 2012 - 2021 94+ points Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
