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| Drinking window: Drink between 2007 and 2010 (based on 5 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88.2 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 18 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Brsed on 7/1/2012 & rated 87 points: Very easy going, pleasant, quaffable wine. Very expressive nose. Luscious deep layers of black fruit. (1453 views) | | | Tasted by up4wine on 4/12/2012 & rated 87 points: Big, in your face Syrahs don't score well with me; not a style I enjoy. This bottle, although not in the class of world class, was still in the category of very good and quite enjoyable. Even keeled, with enough tannins and acid to match well with food. (1576 views) | | | Tasted by Nedder_travels_the_world on 12/2/2011 & rated 94 points: nose: cherries, anise, cherry cola, dried red fruits, some vanilla
flavor: great balanced aged tannins, some oak sweetness but nothing overly so, sour cherries, strawberries, currants but not as much spice as i had expected from RRV. I think this wine is peaking right now so drink up. It has a few more years left in it before it takes a turn but it's fine right now. Day one 91
Update: Day 2: nose about the same but the flavors are MUCH more well integrated and balanced. It's a big luscious fruit, spice, and cherry cola classic RRV wine perfectly complementing the spaghetti amatriciana's spice. I'd put this at a 94 today while yesterday it was a bit closed and one dimensional.
it was stored overnight in a eurocav wine preserver. (1905 views) | | | Tasted by cbbrown3 on 12/17/2010 & rated 91 points: Quick 30 minute decant. Deep, dark purple color. Fresh cracked black pepper, blackberries, licorice, fresh ground coffee, and a touch of chocolate on the nose. Medium body with ripe, chewy tannins and good acidity. Nice mouth filling flavors on the palate. Decent length on the finish with spicy pepper dominating with black fruit and a touch of stems and oak. Very nice syrah if you like the big pepper element, which I do. (1827 views) | | | Tasted by Blcmdpa@gmail.com on 4/1/2010 & rated 89 points: Thick and Jammy with strong fruit flavors and nose. A bit opaque in the midpalate, lacking some definition, chocolate and smoke finish that does not linger but satisfies none the less. Straight ahead with no nuance or nonsense, a great every day medium weight pour. (1998 views) | | | Tasted by garetjax_kison on 3/29/2010 & rated 84 points: Popped and poured making dinner. Smoke and bacon notes on the nose. Some fruit on the finish. Not a substantial finish. A little disappointed although it worked well enough with dinner/food. (1048 views) | | | Tasted by beezer6 on 7/12/2009 & rated 87 points: Taste from bottle at Cafe Bionda.
Raisinated fruit. Highly extracted but out of balance.
Tons of heat on the finish, though served a bit warm. (1164 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 8/25/2008 & rated 92 points: Family Winemakers San Francisco; 8/24/2008-8/25/2008 (Fort Mason, San Francisco): Pepper and black fruit nose and palate; medium finish (2582 views) | | | Tasted by dfeiner on 7/14/2008 & rated 91 points: Nose: Bright, coffee, cherry, chocolate and a touch of oak. Noticeably nice mouthfeel, silky and rich. Good acidity, cherry cough drops in a good way. A bit of citrus (?) and then some sweet violet flavors. Very nice. (1347 views) | | | Tasted by sdatl on 7/1/2008 & rated 85 points: Dark violet color, dusty, but restrained nose; tastes like a syrah, solid, fruity, but with rough tannins and not a ton of complexity. Fine for the price, but not a wow wine. (1353 views) | | | Tasted by kschriner on 2/21/2008 & rated 85 points: A very good syrah but not as good as the Santa Lucia syrah. (1605 views) | | | Tasted by D.Callahan on 1/25/2008 & rated 85 points: No nose to speak of, good fruit on the front of the palate but a slight bitter bite on the mid, this bite seems to cut the finish a little short. Pretty good but not great.
After some air time the alcohol heat started to come through in the finish, not enough to change my rating however since the bitter bite in the mid palate faded somewhat as well. (1679 views) | | | Tasted by conform on 12/21/2007: Young, not terrifically profound, but solid, meaty syrah with light tannin and light-medium acid. Longish. I like this but doubt it's a 50% improvement on the Sonoma County. (1697 views) | | | Tasted by drdebs on 3/21/2007 & rated 89 points: FamilyWinemakers of California; 3/20/2007-3/21/2007 (Pasadena, CA): Very good wine with excellent value. Soft plum aromas and flavors, complemented by warm spice notes. (2841 views) |
| Novy Family Wines 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 Sonoma CountyMendocino CountyRussian River Valley Russian River Valley Winegrowers Association | Wikipedia |
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