Quails’ Gate Estate Winery The Boswell Syrah Syrah 2020

The award-winning Boswell is part of our Founders’ Series. Each of these wines are hand-crafted to the highest standards and available in limited quantities. The Boswell Syrah is a tribute to our mother’s family name and honours the values Rosemary (Boswell) Stewart instilled in our family business.

The warm, sunshine-soaked August and September was the ideal climate to advance ripening with great flavours developing on the vine. The ideal ripening continued well into October, affording us the much needed hang-time to develop the complexity that is the hallmark of this great wine.

The 2020 Syrah was hand-harvested on October 19. Grapes were destemmed into 1-tonne totes and left to ferment on skins for 19 days. This small ferment volume allows the winemakers exact control of the ferment preserving all the elegance and purity of flavour this dynamic varietal can deliver. Aging the 2020 Syrah for 17 months in large format French oak gave this Syrah a soft tannin structure and a smooth mouthfeel with just the right balance of fruit and oak.

This cool-climate Syrah delivers rich aromatics of blueberry, violet and white pepper. A smooth palate brimming with spice, excellent structure and an abundance of soft tannins.