Community Tasting Notes 11

• milmil121212 Likes this wine: 91 points

  March 2, 2024 - I've been through three bottles of this over the past 90 days (most recent last night).
  
  This wine needs a bunch of air. I agree with the strange nose on open as well as the punchy acidity and tannins. After a couple of hours in the decanter / day 2 in the bottle, everything really comes together. The nose becomes lovely for one. The wine has a pleasing rusticity ... There are the typical blue fruits (I get boysenberry in particular) and some leafy / foresty influences and a bit of bitterness going into the finish. The wine also is a good complement to fatty food.
  
  This for me is special in that it isn't easily categorical. I don't get Rhone or California or Australia. At c. $30 (Lastbottle), this is a killer value.

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• BBinSC wrote: 91 points

  March 1, 2024 - I get this score is a little lower than average. I did a PnP and so haven't had much air to the wine. Loads of blueberry jam on the nose, and something savory - tomato leaf? Olives? Tobacco? Can't quite figure that out, but palate follows - super silky, grainy blueberry and black raspberry notes, finish is average. Really good - not sure it'll transcend much beyond that.

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• jmoore431 Likes this wine: 92 points

  February 27, 2024 - Deep, dark and rich with fruit. Great value too! Note to self: you don't drink enough Syrah!!! Fix that!!! 92+

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• Max S. Likes this wine: 93 points

  January 29, 2024 - Much better this time around.

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• WineLackey wrote:

  December 16, 2023 - An otherwise lovely Syrah with an unfortunate touch of bandaid brett. I picked up the brett right away on the nose, and when tasting, it had a bitter, medicinal note (think Cloraseptic). I've only had a few Big Basin wines (Syrah and Pinot) but don't remember encountering this with those. I have three more bottles of this, so we'll see how those go. I got them for a very good price, so perhaps this is why.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Big Basin Vineyards
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation Rattlesnake Rock
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Santa Cruz Mountains
• Appellation Santa Cruz Mountains

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• In Cellars 163 (64%)
• Consumed 91 (36%)

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