Product Profile
Craggy Range Le Sol 2009
Full bodied, Dry, Red, 100% Syrah. Drink now or cellar. 14.1% alc.
Tasting Notes
An opaque black core with a dark garnet rim. Redolent with black cherry, blueberry, melted liquorice, wild thyme and, of course, black pepper. This is intensely flavoured with layers of fine ripe tannin. The flavours just go on and on. A remarkable vintage.
97 Points, 5 Stars. "This is the best Le Sol yet.” Bob Campbell MW
19½+ Points, 5 Stars. "This is a wine of great potential.” Raymond Chan
98 Points, 5 Stars. “A wine of compelling presence..." Sam Kim
96 Points. James Halliday
95 Points. Campbell Mattinson
5 Stars. "Should unfold well over the next decade.” Michael Cooper
5 Stars. "A beautiful wine, created to be enjoyed for the next 10-12 years.” Yvonne Lorkin
Producer
Craggy Range
Terry Peabody and his family searched for ten years to find the place and the people that could fulfil a dream – that they could make some of the best wine in the world.
It was this notion of legacy – to create something greater than the here and now – that led Terry Peabody in 1997 to Steve Smith and to the development of Craggy Range. Together they set a plan to buy the best vineyard land, select parcels of grapes grown by the country’s best farmers, and to choose a place for their homes, cellars and country restaurant. Their aim was to make single-vineyard wines – wines that are true expressions of the vineyard’s terroir. And an ambition to make the greatest wines in the land. No small goal and one that is not achieved without considerable effort.