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• W2WineGuy Likes this wine: 91 points

  December 2, 2019 - Good wine, well integrated at this point. Smoky, tobacco, meat, some syrah spice, not overpowering, but does have a medium to long finish where it just coats your tongue. Good wine

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• Pedroel Likes this wine: 91 points

  November 27, 2019 - Sneaky length; starts slow, then opens expansively in the mid-palate and then just never stops! Drinking well, now, with a little room to further harmonize.

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• Wine Gopher wrote: 91 points

  May 1, 2015 - This was my first Abeja Syrah and first WA Syrah from the 2013 vintage so I sacrificed one infant bottle in the name of self-education. Drank over 2 days with a vacu-vin overnight.
  
  First day: Tooth staining dark purple color. Nose had dark fruit and spice (cinnamon & clove). Flavors of dark berries, plum and baking spice. Plush texture but a little tight both straight from the bottle and on my second glass which had been decanted for 30 minutes to an hour. A hint of heat on the medium finish. High 80s to 90 for a score.
  
  Second day: Similar nose and flavor profile. It has opened up and has a smoother more expressive finish and I'm not noticing the heat on the second day.
  
  I'll probably hold off a year or two to open another bottle. If I was planning to drink now I would decant for at least a couple hours.

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• Vintage 2013
• Type Red
• Producer Abeja
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region Washington
• SubRegion Columbia Valley
• Appellation Walla Walla Valley

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