This New Zealand syrah focuses your palate and satisfies with smooth and intense flavour. A leather strop: a soft thing that sharpens a hard thing. Dark fruit somehow does the same to these tannins, making them clearer, bolder. Not just by contrast. By intensity. Focusing your palate. Forcing you to peer through and around. Until you find the Szechuan peppercorns. And sudoku-like satisfaction.