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| Drinking window: Drink between 2015 and 2017 (based on 4 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 87.5 pts. and median of 87 pts. in 16 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Kding327 on 12/28/2015 & rated 90 points: The wine looks light purple colored. It smells like strawberry with mint. It tastes like strawberry and strawberry jam. The body is medium. The wine has silky texture. The wine finishes long.And this wine with great value. (2994 views) | | | Tasted by ChipGreen on 6/8/2015: Vacu-vin'd for several days. The wine is now fruit forward with black cherry/cassis on the entry, mocha/allspice on the finish. The middle is kind of hollow, a "doughnut wine" and the body is a bit thin but it has noticeably improved overall with time/air. (3454 views) | | | Tasted by Wine.woot_taster on 6/3/2015: Bahwm and I had a bottle of the Ryder Estate Syrah with dinner one night last month. Upon opening, the wine had a nose that reminded me a bit of a Carneros PN, but the funkiness dissipated quickly, leaving very dark fruit aromas. The first taste was a surprisingly dry sensation, not so much up front fruitiness as I expected. To me, it didn't evoke the flavors I expect from a Syrah, either initially or as the bottle progressed. We had paired it with grilled tuna and Swiss chard, maybe not the best pairing.
I thought it improved enough after being open for a while to have some optimism about longer term, but I found it difficult to be very enthusiastic. I wouldn't mind checking it out a year down the road. (2983 views) | | | Tasted by Wine.woot_taster on 6/3/2015: A bottle of this made it to the last Seattle get-together - where we frankly had too much wine for the number of participants.
I didn't take detailed notes. My observations are fully consistent with the other ratters. I found it a bit ragged at the start. But with time I definitely found it more enjoyable; I found myself refilling my glass with this one more than any other. In the end it was my favorite of the bottles we opened at the event.
The consensus among the group was that it was a solid syrah; no defects, but also nothing that caused any of us to get overly excited about it. I think I liked it more than anyone else in the group.
I thought it would be a decent value up to about $15/bottle. IMHO - good pricing on this offer. (3211 views) | | | Tasted by Wine.woot_taster on 6/3/2015: As ddeuddeg mentioned, we tasted this wine about a month or so ago. My notes are very sketchy on this wine. I did not get much on the nose upon first opening the bottle. Whatever was there, faded quickly. It appeared to be a fruit bomb with a lot of cassis and black cherries. It had a bit of a medium finish. It really did not present itself as a Syrah. I kept hoping that it would open up and even ran it through the Vinturi, but it still didn't help. ddeuddeg mentioned that perhsps we had the wrong food pairing. Perhaps. But, for me, it didn't work well on its own either. I'm afraid that the only reason that I had another glass was to see how it had evolved as the evening progressed. For those of you who know me, you know that it is extremely difficult for me to write a negative review. I really and truly wanted to like this wine, but it wasn't doing it for me. (3222 views) | | | Tasted by ChipGreen on 6/2/2015: Natural cork closure. On PnP the color is dark and inky like a Petite Sirah. Raspberry, currant and vanilla on the nose with some heat and a little toasty oak. There is also a vegetal component that I can't quite put my finger on.
Asparagus? (Hold the "Sideways" jokes, please ). On the palate, it's a tad harsh right out of the gate with noticeable heat and a bitter note that obscures the fruit somewhat. Let the swirling begin! After some air, the nose is still similar
to the initial PnP but the palate is starting to smooth out around the edges. It's not as hot and the bitterness has faded into the background (mostly) to reveal black raspberry, cherry, currant and vanilla toast. There is a bit of spice and
oak on the medium finish. Tannins are coarse but light. Pairs well with some Beehive cheese and may be best as a food wine. I prefer a fuller, more savory style of Syrah but this is not bad, especially for the asking price. Definitely
improves as it opens so give it some air or another year in the bottle. (1016 views) | | | Tasted by EMark on 6/5/2014 & rated 86 points: Very attractive bluish-purple color in the glass. Fairly subtle nose—some mint, some wood. Quite fruity on the palate—strawberries, stone fruits--with, maybe just a touch of a tobacco kinda thing. Quite light for a red wine. Very easy to drink if you are tannin-averse. Practically, no tannin. Between the low tannin character and the equally light acid, I’m saying this is a save-space-in-your-cellar-and-drink-me-now wine. (1040 views) |
| Ryder Estate Producer websiteSyrah Varietal article (Wikipedia) | (Wines Northwest)
Note that some producers in the Northern Rhone distinguish between simply Syrah and "Serine", the latter described as ‘an ancient clone of Syrah, the berries of which are more oval-shaped and less deeply pigmented than Syrah’ by producer Tardieu-Laurent. USAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Central Coasthttp://www.ccwinegrowers.org/links.html
http://www.discovercaliforniawines.com/regional-wine-organizations/
http://beveragetradenetwork.com/en/btn-academy/list-of-winegrowers-association-in-central-coast-california-274.htm
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