Matetic Vineyards – EQ Syrah – 2013

Intense inky dark purple colour. Smoky nose with some new oak, black truffle, raw meat, dark berries and gingerbread spices. The palate is full and muscular, less oak on the taste with spicy and layered dark fruit, intense flavours of sweet blackberry, steak tartar meatiness and a very long, spicy finish. Nice and rewarding in a fleshy Côte-Rôtie style.