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| Drinking window: Drink between 2019 and 2025 (based on 8 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.4 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 30 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Cote d'Or on 1/15/2023: Tasted over 2 hrs
-opaque purple
-primary grape-y violets faint smoked meat note
-med/med- acidity, med/med+ weight somewhat restrained ripe dark fruit with a mineral bitter licorice streak that runs through the finish, med/med- tannins
-dark and brooding without much complexity now, think this needs some more time to open up (586 views) | | | Tasted by rrschrumjr on 4/10/2021 & rated 93 points: Superb. Thick, fragrant, floral nose. So pleasant, reminds me of blue, syrupy fruits. High acidity on the palate, with blue and red fruits coated in fat. This is where the mild olives, mild bacon fat savory fruits speak to the varietal. Tannic throughout. A lot of life still. Loved it. (1178 views) | | | Tasted by EFrohmader on 5/30/2020 & rated 92 points: Blackberry, fig, olive brine, potpourri, white pepper. Medium-plus body. Medium acidity. Medium-long finish. Good now, but no rush. (1349 views) | | | Tasted by JKelly05 on 5/19/2020: Sweet spot now.
Balanced w/ fruit and classic savory Syrah notes. (1398 views) | | | Tasted by wiscgrad on 5/3/2020 & rated 92 points: Tons of red fruit and beautiful aromatics. some black pepper on the plate to add some spice. really well made (1299 views) | | | Tasted by ross.gore on 10/11/2019: Similar notes to Frank. Really delicious in a northern rhone style. Sarah says "Excellent." Great start to the weekend. (1305 views) | | | Tasted by Frank Murray III on 6/29/2019: Previous bottle was 18 months ago, and this seems to be softening since then. Probably worth noting too that in my note then I suggested the wine was not a long ager, and I still find that to be the case. Opened this current bottle on Thursday, drank through about 1/2 of it, then didn't even touch it yesterday, getting back to it today, which Saturday. Lovely aromatic that is thematic for a Wells Guthrie made syrah, with some whole cluster, bacon fat and some dried flower. Fairly gentle palate, mainly built around a blue and purple note, so think about blueberry and some black raspberry kind of mix. Finishes with some rosemary and creosote, plus some tangy acidity, with a gentle lick of tannin. This is savory but only to the degree that it matches well with the fruit and acid, for me a nicely balanced wine with some residual structure. My final bottle, and I only can hope that Wells can make some new syrahs post-Copain--always thought his style and approach was smartly done. (1429 views) | | | Tasted by MTC2 on 2/4/2019 & rated 90 points: Not as complex as older vintages of Copain Syrahs I’ve recently enjoyed. Would have scored better if I had the patience to hold for another 3-5 years. (929 views) | | | Tasted by S1 on 6/28/2018: Lots of tannin up front, lots of blue grapey fruit, lots of olive but not too much black pepper. Wild sage! (1392 views) | | | Tasted by JKelly05 on 5/29/2018: i should prob check my own notes before drinking yet another of these..... (1299 views) | | | Tasted by JKelly05 on 4/3/2018: Drank alongside the '04 HB.
Closed and uninteresting day 1.
Tart red fruit, menthol, classic syrah meaty notes but more subtle and light handed.
Needs more time to develop further personality (1242 views) | | | Tasted by Bluethunder on 1/31/2018 & rated 91 points: Dark crimson, leather, smoke and dark fruit. A full bodied wine with a long finish. Young wine enjoyable now but that will benefit from cellaring. (1208 views) | | | Tasted by Frank Murray III on 1/14/2018: I feel as if I am stalking Mr Dildine today, following his TNs on this wine, as well as the 2015 RM Summa I just keyed. I opened this wine a day prior to this TN, and I had one glass, That experience left me wondering whether the wine was ready to enjoy, as it seemed rough and primary, very much like a barrel sample. With that impression, stuffed the cork back into the bottle and into the fridge. Took the bottle to dinner last night, so it had the extra day of slow ox, and it finally had uncoiled. What ultimately it showed was the class and balance of today's Copain syrah style. First, there is nothing oaky here and definitely nothing chocolately or black fruited--this is for certain not where the syrahs are today. Instead, and what I often experience in the Copain syrahs now, is a purple quality. It is embedded in the aromatic and the palate. In the former, think bacon fat and dried flowers/potpourri, I assume from the stem inclusion. Yet, there is nothing stemmy in this wine. In the palate, a boysen quality, with lavender and lightly rocky in the finish. All together, balanced and medium weighted. And in this vintage, it seems the wine is more flashy and showy then anything savory or stern. It's just that light hand, with really the fruit and acid working well in tandem. Is this a long ager? Probably better in the short to medium term, say now to next 5-7 years. Beautifully made. (1473 views) | | | Tasted by Mike Dildine on 9/6/2017 & rated 94 points: Energetic and aromatic. Great Syrah with a long life ahead. (1136 views) | | | Tasted by Mike Dildine on 4/1/2017 & rated 92 points: 13.8% abv. Dark ruby, expressive aromatics. Blueberry and leather with mint, smoke and floral highlights. Excellent depth and length. Very enjoyable now and will continue to improve. (1137 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, Sonoma’s Sensational 2015s Parts 1 & 2 (Mar 2017) (3/1/2017)
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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 North CoastThe North Coast American Viticultural Area (AVA) in California, covering more than three million acres, includes Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake counties, and portions of Marin and Solano counties. (see The Wine Institute for more information) |
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