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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.5 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 16 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by gf2182 on 10/13/2019 & rated 91 points: From Mag... given some of the reviews from years ago, was very worried this would be really tired... but still had a bit of acid in it, still nice fruit with some leather, the 4 of us were very very pleased!! (466 views) | | | Tasted by GoBlue2002 on 11/22/2014 & rated 87 points: Blind Red Wine Tasting (Plymouth, MN): Dark in color yet without much structure remaining. This still sports a fruit-forward palate.
For blind tasting:
I guessed Bordeaux, 88 pts. 3rd place.
Marianne: Zinfandel, 86 pts. 5th place.
Overall 3rd out of 8 wines. (2032 views) | | | Tasted by alpha_ori on 9/14/2014 & rated 91 points: Soft and lush, with acids just barely balancing. Drink now. (1749 views) | | | Tasted by alpha_ori on 12/9/2013 & rated 93 points: Fruit, acids are very good for an 11-year-old wine. This is drinking very well. (1984 views) | | | Tasted by JavaMonkey on 2/19/2010 & rated 86 points: Well, this has been disappointing syrah week. Great dark purple color in this glass. The nose has nice raspberry, spice, and toast. The palate is a let-down. The fruit recedes, it's very one-dimensional, and there's a bitterness to the finish. I'm hoping this is just a bad bottle. (2610 views) | | | Tasted by fcs on 1/1/2009 & rated 92 points: Terrific wine (2424 views) | | | Tasted by oaxaca90049 on 4/23/2008: As a big fan of the MM grenaches I was really looking forward to the Syrah. I decanted for a couple of hours. The nose didn't yield much of anything. In the mouth I simply couldn't get past the harshness or the drying tannins on the finish. I'll try again today. (1746 views) | | | Tasted by pbjosh on 4/2/2008: Bought this a while back with the intent of drinking it soon to try and then lost track of it for a while... just popped it for lunch w/ coworkers. This is no shy wine. Upon initial opening it smelled like 03 Rhone. This is big, boisterous and concentrated. On the nose it has dark fruit though not as much varietal character as you might hope for, plenty of sweet oak (including some shoe polish leading to vinyl type aromatics that are a touch off putting), and a good bit of heat. Lots of pie fruit / some jamminess on the palate. It finishes with good concentration but also with a lot of heat, reminiscent of neat alcohol. A bummer of sorts as it seems the underlying fruit must be of pretty high quality, but this wine could be well served to have been picked much sooner and to have seen less new wood. (1747 views) | | | Tasted by ejca on 7/1/2007: dark, powerfull but complex, high in alcohol but did not overwhelm. Great wine, especially at the price. (1640 views) | | | Tasted by timewithwine on 5/3/2007: These notes are from memory following a trip to Va. Tech with a WCWN lurker, Mark Dorton. The nature of the trip diminished any interest in making contemporaneous notes, but discussion of the wine was a welcome emotional transition.
This is huge wine just now. The bit of brett on the nose blew off after about an half hour. A hugely expressive wine, it delivers flavors of blueberry, cooked blackberries, (Mark described it as blackberry jam), plum, smoke, mineral and long and deep on the finish was coffee. Somewhere at some point, some anise and iodine sneaked in. The alcohol, a whopping 15.4%, is, for the most part, nicely balanced with the fruit. While not a gloppy Cali Syrah, it’s nevertheless a huge wine. Yet, at times, as its expression developed with air and time, I was thinking of Cote Rotie. No, this is not an old world wine, but it doesn’t seem to sit squarely on the new world side of the fence either. Rather, it was a welcome change of pace. This needs time. How much, I cannot say, but it won’t suffer in the next 5 years at all.
And a word of thanks to Brad Herrington of Varietals (and, yes, well, WCWN too) who put together a case for me which included this wine. This was the first wine pulled from that case. If this is any indication of what surprises await me in that case, ... well, I’m in for some excellent glasses ahead! (66 views) | | | Tasted by kstoddard on 2/17/2007 & rated 93 points: Midnight black in color. Tobacco, boysenberries, blackberries, blueberries and a touch of vanilla oak. Great acidity. Super extracted but not heavy. Mid palate is somewhat complex. Nice long, rich finish. Drinking very well right now. 15.4% alcohol. (1597 views) | | | Tasted by kstoddard on 12/11/2006 & rated 93 points: Dark, dense ruby color. Nose of leather, tobacco and blackberries. Tastes of blueberries. Very extracted and rich. Mouth coating. Layered, long finish. Enough fruit to cover it's considerable alcohol level of 15.4%. Everything you would want in a Central Coast Syrah. Bravo! (1729 views) | | | Tasted by Love4Vino on 8/26/2006: Was not as thrilled as the Grenache that I had several months ago. I had expected the similar wonderful aromatics but was disappointed. It had a muted nose that only vigorous swirling can coax it out of the glass. The flavors were thin and uninviting. I like the QPR delivered by this winery so I will have to give this the benefit of the doubt and try another bottle. (1870 views) |
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Syrah 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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