Craggy Range Gimblett Gravels Syrah

The NZ wine that’s just made international headlines and recognised as one of the “50 Best Wines in the World” at the world’s largest and most influential wine show, The 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards in London!

Let’s face it, any Kiwi Syrah drinker has known for years that this is a class act and this absolutely belter 2020 vintage has just made it BIG time on the international stage. It’s won 97/100 and a Best In Show Award at the DWWA which is an absolutely incredible achievement!

Winning Best In Show at the DWWA is no easy road that’s for sure. After joining over 18,000 other wines they are then awarded Gold, Silver or Bronze –  the rest are shown the door! Then the best of the best go toe-to-toe to determine the Platinum award winners. THEN, the Platinum award winners go to head-to-head to discover the overall Best In Show winners, the top 50 wines from the entire competition.

Or let’s put it another way – top 50 from over 18,000 is just 0.002% of all wines entered got a Best In Show Award!

The judges at the DWWA 2022 were clearly blown away with this one – “This is glorious Syrah: deep, dense and black-red in colour, with classic varietal aromas which combine inner urgency with sweet seduction.”

It’s a little over twenty years since Craggy Range opened their doors and set about becoming one of Hawke’s Bay and Aotearoa’s most iconic, premium producers. It takes a certain somebody with the nouse, skills (and cash!) to get that off the ground. Not just a somebody, a Peabody.

US Billionaires Terry and Mary Peabody launched the now world famous Craggy Range back in 1998. The state of the art winery sits at the foot of the spectacular Te Mata Peak there in Hawke’s Bay along with their multi-award winning winery restaurant and no expense spared luxury winery lodge and cottage accommodation.

The Craggy Range owner was once known as the “Golden Garbo” for turning other people’s garbage/rubbish into his multi billion dollar fortune through his Aussie waste management business. We can promise you that’ll be the only sentence you’ll ever read with the words ‘rubbish’ and ‘Craggy range’ in it. Craggy boast a world class line-up of wines that deserves every bit of praise they get.

This Syrah is from their Gimblett Gravels vineyard and from a great 2020 vintage. Craggy describe it as “Medium to full-bodied, the unique savoury and fruit balance is sure to entice all flavours of Syrah from the Gimblett Gravels.”

This is a class act every year and especially in top vintages, which this definitely was for the Hawke’s Bay!