Professionele reviews
Winespectator (97)
A dynamic Syrah that’s loaded with personality and substance, offering lilting accents of bacon fat, black raspberry, garrigue and black olive while building richness and tension on the finish.
James Suckling (96)
This is an extreme wine. It has so much green olive, bacon fat, wet earth, iron and blood on the nose, with hints of peach and blood oranges. It’s full-bodied and powerfully meaty on the palate, with very fine, tight-grained tannins. Intensely, outrageously tarry, and keeps going. From biodynamically grown grapes.
Vinous (96)
The 2022 Syrah Sur Echalas Vineyard is intense, mixing black tea and cardamom with olives, roasted peppers, stone dust and dried citrus peels. It is soothingly round and beautifully balanced with silken textures and ripe wild berry fruits complicated by saline mineral tones. Juicy and fresh, the 2022 resonates with minty herbs and a stony resonance as sweet tannins frame a lingering note of licorice. The Sur Echalas Vineyard turns the pleasure dial to the max.
Jeb Dunnuck (96)
The 2022 Syrah Sur Echalas Vineyard is particularly exotic in peppercorn and garrigue, dipping into a wild array of green olive tapenade, too. The tannins are pronounced and sturdy, not quite ready to calm down. Intensely earthy, complex, and feral, there’s a reprieve on the velvety midpalate, leading to a finishing touch of oyster shell and sea spray. This is a wild wine ready to meld a bit more in the bottle; enjoy best 2028-2038.
Owen Bargreen (100)
A world-class Syrah, the 2022 ‘Sur Echalas Vineyard’ is without a doubt one of the finest wines I have tasted over the past year. A stunning achievement by Horsepower Vineyards Director of Winemaking, Elizabeth Bourcier, this takes the lead with black truffle shavings and oyster sauce notes on the nose alongside cured meats, coffee grounds and wet stone accents. This has excellent power considering the coolness of the vintage, but the mouth-watering acidity really holds things neatly in place. The palate is plush and beautifully textured, showing beautiful weight and verve. Seamless throughout the drinking experience, with a gracious core of black and red fruits, alongside the salty and stony nuances, this is delicious, beautifully-textured Syrah that will cellar well over the next decade.
