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| Drinking window: Drink between 2006 and 2014 (based on 6 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.6 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by jmd60611 on 8/11/2008 & rated 89 points: Really nice from memory, very structured and maybe a bit lean (1364 views) | | | Tasted by rmodak on 7/22/2007 & rated 87 points: Fairly typical syrah with blackberry,vanilla, some meat, lush mouthfeel and medium low tannin finish. Oak was a bit to obvous to me. (1573 views) | | | Tasted by jmd60611 on 5/22/2007 & rated 89 points: I Enjoyed this wine, but still needs time in the bottle to soften its grippy tannins...Bright fruit underlies the grip, and smooths out second day (1606 views) | | | Tasted by jmd60611 on 3/11/2007 & rated 90 points: Deep purple, super rich and very concentrated, a bit primary and still dry and delicious...big fruit cocktail wine for now that is excellent (1716 views) | | | Tasted by jmd60611 on 8/8/2006 & rated 89 points: Big ball of purple...Rich, big, big, big, but still rough with heavy tannins that make me think that a year or three this will be truly nice (1867 views) | | | Tasted by jmd60611 on 9/26/2005 & rated 91 points: Really nice syrah, big full bodied deep purple color with big fruit (1599 views) | | | Tasted by bseaman on 5/20/2005: Not ready yet. (1463 views) |
| Audelssa Estate Winery 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. Mountain Terraces Vineyard website.
From Gundlach Bundschu fact sheet for the 2005 vintage: "Mountain Terraces Vineyard is located on the southwestern slopes of the Mayacamas Mountains, 1,800 feet above the Sonoma Valley. Owned and farmed by the Schaefer family, this steep, warm, high elevation site produce Cabernet Sauvignon of unparalleld depeth and intensity."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 ValleySonoma County, California, is one of the most important winegrowing regions in the whole of the United States. Vines have been planted here since the 1850s and, apart from the inevitable hiatus brought about by Prohibition, the county's relationship with wine has been prolific and unbroken.
Viticulturally speaking, Sonoma County is divided into three distinct sections: Sonoma Valley, Northern Sonoma and Sonoma Coast. Each of these has its own AVA title and encompasses several sub-AVAs within its boundaries. |
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