• French oak
• Juicy berry fruit
• Spiced plums
• Ripe, gentle tannins

"Deeply-tinted syrah with sweet, ripe berry fruit, cassis, dark-fleshed plum, black pepper, liquorice, dark chocolate and spicy oak. It is a delicious combination of flavours with a core of sweet, ripe fruit balanced by soft acidity and ripe tannins. A lot of wine for the price" Bob Campbell, Master of Wine, Real Review, Feb 2022

"A complete bouquet with a varietal core of dark berries, baked plum, black currant then wood spices from toasty barrel and a fine layer of dried herb. Dry, varietal and equally intense on the palate with a core of berries and ripe dark fruits, there’s no mistaking the firm ripe chalky tannins and back bone of acidity and a mealy salivating mouthfeel. A delicious wine that expands its flavours and textures as the wine warms and opens up in glass. Best drinking from mid to late 2023 through 2030" Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier, Aug 2022

"Restrained, youthful yet attractive nose with vibrant aromas of wild red berries, blueberries, dehydrated raspberries, roast beetroot, coffee grinds, tar, spice and milk chocolate oak. Juicy, crunchy, carbonic and primary with blueberry fruit, supple structure and sappy whole-berry tannins. Very charming and will no doubt age well" NZ Wine Rater

Sweet, ripe berry fruits and plums, fresh and juicy fruit coupled with Hawke’s Bay spice, balanced acidity and ripe, gentle tannins. A great wine for opening on release, this amazing 2020 Syrah is a vibrant, youthful wine and can be enjoyed immediately but it will also continue to develop over the next four to six years.

2020 Bilancia Syrah was sourced from two vineyards at Roys Hill, Hawke’s Bay; la collina and Trelinnoe.

2020 was the vintage of irony; truly spectacular fruit harvested under the cloud of the global pandemic.

From both vineyards perfect Syrah fruit was harvested separately and crushed to open top vessels for fermentation. The wines were pressed at dryness and run to either older French oak barriques or stainless steel tanks. The final wine is a blend of approximately 10% from la collina vineyard and 90% from Trelinnoe vineyard.