One of the wine world’s best-kept secrets is just how delicious Hawke’s Bay syrah is. New Zealand’s second largest wine region (after Marlborough) has been producing world-class syrah that can be compared with the Rhône’s finest since the late Eighties. Yet, just like other new world producers, Hawke’s Bay winemakers were sidetracked into making bordeaux-aping blends on their prized, stony, riverbed soils, rather than following the syrah star...

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