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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Quarked on 6/12/2016 & rated 90 points: I got this bottle second hand, so no idea how it was cellared. This opened a bit musty, but with a few hours of air, that receded (though it was still there at some level) behind cedar and earth. There is some dark fruit/syrah character hiding in there too, but it's more a memory of what it probably once was. Glad I'm drinking this now rather than waiting, but still enjoyable. (988 views) | | | Tasted by SonomaWilliam on 11/29/2010 & rated 93 points: my last bottle of 2001 Syrah, drinking perfectly, 2nd day open, properly stored. Blackberry, earth. Acidity has held up well, tannins all integrated. I'd drink any still out there in next year or so, before decline. (3540 views) | | | Tasted by SonomaWilliam on 5/31/2010 & rated 93 points: Off the charts amazing syrah, showing lilttle sign of age besides integration.
Brilliant deep purple color that hasn't fadec despite nine years.
Nose; white pepper (fades after decanting), hints of smoke and leather, still big Red and black fruit in mouth, slight tannins also disappear; drinks well from bottle or decanted; wonderful balance and acidity with pleasing lingering fruit finish.
I knew syrah aged well, but I will be hiding my other 40 bottles in cellar! (3653 views) | | | Tasted by enosnob on 10/19/2008 & rated 89 points: 10/19/08: dark purple color with a nose of floral, blackberry and raspberry, smoke and vanilla. Its a medium bodied wine and the structure is not as tight and balanced as it could be. Maybe needed to sit a little. The flavors are very much of Rhone with tobacco, red and black fruit and earth. the finish is medium long and just a tad sour. (3016 views) | | | Tasted by wineack on 3/9/2008 & rated 90 points: I opened this after the 1980 McDowell Syrah and it suffered by comparison, at least on the first night. By the second night it was relly showing its stuff. Rich fruit and sweet oak with out being jammy or overoaked. tasty stuff. (3010 views) |
| Palmeri 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. Stagecoach Vineyard On weinlagen-infoUSAAmerican 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 Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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