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 Vintage2005 Label 1 of 9 
(NOTE: Label borrowed from 2004 vintage.)
TypeRed
ProducerVIE Winery (web)
VarietySyrah
Designationn/a
VineyardLas Madres Vineyard
CountryUSA
RegionCalifornia
SubRegionNapa / Sonoma
AppellationCarneros

Drinking Windows and Values
Drinking window: Drink between 2009 and 2013 (based on 4 user opinions)

Community Tasting History

Community Tasting Notes (average 91.3 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 4 notes) - hiding notes with no text

 Tasted by bnord81 on 12/22/2009 & rated 89 points: Somewhat a funky mid pallet that wears off with time in the glass. Plenty of fruit, nice, enjoyable drinker (1183 views)
 Tasted by E on 9/3/2009 & rated 93 points: This a terrific bottle of syrah>>>drinking well now but has the stuffing to last quite a bit longer. (1311 views)
 Tasted by mreinitz on 8/25/2008 & rated 92 points: Full bodied, silky, and tooth staining. Ripe blackberry flavors dominate, with an undercurrent of sweet oak and some chocolate. We all thought that this was delicious. (1168 views)
 Tasted by Totatalitarian on 10/29/2007: The fruit (and wine) is very concentrated, but I am having a hard time getting through the oak. (1214 views)

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VIE Winery

Producer website

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.

USA

American 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.

California

2021 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 / Sonoma

SONOMA: The Yorkville Highlands AVA, approved in 1998, is located in the southwestern corner of Mendocino County, between Sonoma County's Alexander Valley to the South and Mendocino County!s Anderson Valley to the North. The region is 25 miles long, roughly in the shape of rectangle and bisected by Highway 128 which runs the length of the AVA. The region!s terrain is hilly and forested, with elevations ranging from 1,078 to 2,442 feet above sea level.
The distinguishing features of the Yorkville Highlands AVA are rocky soils with a high gravel content and the climate, which is cooler than Alexander Valley but warmer than Anderson Valley, and significantly cooler at night than the surrounding areas.

Carneros

Straddles the southern ends of Napa & Sonoma Counties.

 
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