2018 Trinity Hill Homage Syrah

98 POINTS

Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

Richly opulent yet impeccably structured and seamlessly harmonious, the wine exhibits stunning fruit purity together with seductive spicy complexity. The instantly appealing bouquet shows sweet plum, blackberry, cedar, olive and floral aromas with a hint of cracked pepper. It’s immensely concentrated on the palate, displaying exceptional depth and richness, while remaining graceful and poised. Built to last but enticing and irresistible already.

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James Suckling

This is a complex and very intense syrah that offers a deeply ripe yet fresh and clear-cut impression of blackberry and pepper, with other layers of spice, graphite and gently meaty notes. The palate is silky yet powerful with really finely layered tannins that cast a long, evenly built finish.

97 POINTS

Bob Campbell MW - The Real Review

Dense yet elegant syrah with floral, violet, dark berry, black pepper, anise and spicy oak. A wine that delivers its power with great subtlety. Surprisingly accessible but with obvious cellaring potential. This is a very serious red indeed.

96 POINTS

Huon Hooke - The Real Review

Deep red colour with a good tint of purple. The bouquet is sweetly ripe to super-ripe, with some almost jammy touches, raspberry to blackberry, the palate intense and slightly sinewy in texture, the tannins slightly edgy and gritty with a stony mineral note. It's not outstandingly rich or fleshy, but a very smart syrah.

95 POINTS

Christina Pickard - Wine Enthusiast

The latest vintage of Homage is a strong one. Straight out of the gate it offers heady aromas of cherries, mint, baking and savory spices, black olives and violets. The oak is fairly prominent, too. In the mouth it's taut and linear, with fine, savory tannins and lovely lifted fruit and spice throughout. Should have a long and beautiful life ahead of it. Drink now–2040.

94 POINTS

Tina Gellie - Decanter

The flagship wine of Trinity Hill, first made in 2002, based on original 1995 plantings that came via Hermitage in the Rhône. Serious, complex and savoury, with silky-smooth, mineral black fruit, chalky red liquorice notes, fine-grained tannins and brisk acidity. Elegant, ageworthy and concentrated with a long, peppery finish.

94 POINTS

Rebecca Gibb MW - Vinous

Always a serious style with a high percentage of whole bunch compared with most producers on the Gravels, this is fragrant, spiced Syrah that seems cooler than the “warmest summer on record” statistics would suggest. While delicate and floaty on the midpalate, there is an intensity of fruit and masses of resolved tannins. Warmly aromatic and brooding with cinnamon, clove and Szechuan pepper meeting black fruit and aniseed, this is a complex, layered style that is constantly evolving. The finish is fresh, the scent of herbs and spices lingering and lingering.

94 POINTS

Mike Bennie - The Wine Front

Ultra floral scents, strawberry too, whiffs of flint and wet stone, clove and cedar in tow. The palate is sinewy, lightly chewy, very long, finely wrapped in a web of firm, ribbons of tannin. Feels very composed, almost a little mouth perfume and floral ‘flavours’ emerging too. Suitably elegant in its vibe. Great red.