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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 13 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Charlie C on 4/7/2024 & rated 88 points: Dark red at the core, fading to the edges. Anise and cherries on the nose. Still soft on the palate, blackberry, cherry, roast meat. Fine tannins, nice acidity, good balance. Finishes long and bright with cherry liqueur notes. Still very nice but on the downhill trek. Drink up. (198 views) | | | Tasted by wineguy58 on 12/19/2012 & rated 91 points: Fresh sweet berry nose. Refined berries out well together. Cocoa bitters on the finish. Mature drink now (2123 views) | | | Tasted by BradboBaggins on 6/14/2011: Add chocolate to Koflaher's 2011 note, and thats my tasting note as well. Plenty of life left. Also a touch petillant, which was surprising, but didn't taste off at all. (2484 views) | | | Tasted by koflaher on 1/14/2011 & rated 92 points: If anyone doesn't think these wines will hold up, my experience with this wine suggests it would last for some time yet. Although it is not the inky purple I remember, the color is still dark and consistent with almost no bricking. The nose has the berries - mostly cherry and raspberry to me - that I associate with a number of Carlisle syrahs. The wine has clearly mellowed and the fruity freshness has been replaced with a more muted taste but the fundamentals feel like they have not changed a great deal. Solid structure and full bodied with mostly dark fruits and some meaty elements. I drank it over 3 days and it was still very drinkable on the 3rd day. Have 2 more of these and will continue to let them go the distance. (2723 views) | | | Tasted by vinoveritas on 12/14/2010 & rated 89 points: First bottle of Carlisle we ever bought. Has held up very well. Lots of chocolate here. (2787 views) | | | Tasted by pmcquillen on 2/14/2010 & rated 93 points: Bright jammy. Good acidity. Soft finish. Soft tannins. (2902 views) | | | Tasted by blondon on 1/18/2009: Popped, decanted 30 minutes, drank over 2 hours. Rich purple color, clings to the glass on the swirl before slowly dripping down in thick legs. Nose of rare roast beef, ripe plum tomatoes, tapenade and cocoa. Lush, rich, thick and smooth in the mouth, a blend of dark fruits, coffee, smoke, blood and minerality. Long finish. (1511 views) | | | Tasted by rowen on 11/4/2008 & rated 94 points: A delicious drink; my next-to-last bottle from my first Carlisle mailing list purchase. Still going strong. As blondon notes below, after being open for about 6 hours the wine did turn a little bitter, but the bitterness had vanished on day 2. (1664 views) | | | Tasted by blondon on 2/3/2008 & rated 90 points: Popped and drank during the Super Bowl. Extraordinarily dark color. Very ripe dark fruit nose with spices. Slightly acidic on the tongue, but through the midpalate smoothed out into a very nice long finish. Towards the end of the game it started to turn bitter on the finish, so I'd suggest drinking these if you have some, since they may be close to the end. (1715 views) | | | Tasted by jeff nowak on 7/29/2006 & rated 92 points: 15.8% alcohol. 125 cases produced.
i'm on a little bit of an anti-oak run, so this wine has one strike against it. i don't think it's over extracted, but i do think it's over oaked. the tannins are too sweet for me as well. however, the wine is not hot despite it's massive alcohol, and it does possess a reasonable balance. the fruit is delicious, if not somewhat candied, and represents the best component of the wine for me. i disagree with RMP about it being a blockbuster, yet it's a nice wine. there is a rather yin and yang for me with this, but impossible not to recommend.
(1410 views) | | | Tasted by OneLastSyrah on 5/5/2005: At first fragrant with blackberry liqueur. Sweet, fruity smelling. Then the wine seemed to veer toward the dark side with meat and smoke aromas coming out. Full-bodied, meaty. Slightly tannic. Good. (1290 views) | | | Tasted by OneLastSyrah on 8/2/2002: ($36) A hard wine to describe for me. Liqueur nose with blue and black fruits, jam on toast, Syrah pepper. Creamy caramel syrup (but not particularly sweet) on the palate with more fruit. I went back for more to try and figure out the rest, but alas the decanter was dry. Okay, further research required, but impressively endowed and with tons of upside. (1335 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 Sonoma CountyMendocino CountySonoma CountySonoma Coast |
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