Tim Harris Winewriter
JOHN FORREST COLLECTION 2007 SYRAH
This is youthful red wine from the Gimblett Gravels of Hawkes Bay that is probably close to its best time for drinking. It has had about 4 years or a bit less from bottling, and is developing well. It needs to breathe after being opened. It is quite delicate and at first does not show much of itself. It can help in such cases if you take a glass out of the bottle to make space for the rest of the wine to passively breathe for a while before you pour it.
On no account decant delicate wine. It gets a shock it can’t recover from and deprives you of the opportunity to manage the process. This 2007 wine has the bottle age to reveal itself when carefully handled. It has a bright pink meniscus, is bright scarlet in the glass and is quite densely coloured. The palate is supple and well balanced for breadth and weight against an aftertaste in which fine friable tannin is set against refreshing tartness.
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