JamesSuckling.com

• By James Suckling
  4/23/2019 (link)

  (K Vintners Syrah Walla Walla Valley Powerline Estate, Red, United States) Subscribe to see review text.

Vinous

• By Stephen Tanzer
  Focus on Washington: The New Normal (Nov 2018), 11/1/2018 (link)

  (K Vintners Syrah Powerline Washington Red) Subscribe to see review text.

JebDunnuck.com

• By Jeb Dunnuck
  Latest Releases from Washington State, 4/5/2018 (link)

  (K Vintners Syrah Powerline Vineyard) Subscribe to see review text.

Full Pull

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull K Vintners, 9/26/2018

  (K Vintners Syrah Powerline) Drawing Winner: The lucky winner of our final book drawing, for the 2012 Horsepower Syrah Mag, is Scott Marckmann, a Full Puller since 2015. Congratulations to Scott, and thanks again to all of you who have supported 36 Bottles of Wine! ---- Hello friends. We have small parcels of a trio of Syrah from K Vintners’ recent set of releases. Our K offers are always feeding frenzies, and this one promises to be extra cuckoo given the wines involved. So, we’ll dive right in with two quick notes: 1. To the best of our knowledge, we have retail dibs on all three of these wines west of the mountains. 2. It’s likely we’ll have to under-allocate here, given the parcel sizes, so a quick reminder of our allocation technique: Our allocations favor breadth over depth, so that everyone gets one bottle before anyone gets two. And our formula for prioritizing allocations includes overall orders, frequency of orders, recency of orders, and list tenure, among other factors. Now, onto the wines:We offered Powerline’s debut 2014 vintage last year before it landed the #2 spot on Wine Spectator’s Top 100 wines of 2017. Then, every bottle available got gobbled up immediately. This year, we’re getting our orders in early—knowing that this wine will probably be gone before the 2018 list is even published. This comes from the second usable vintage at K’s new estate Powerline Vineyard, a 30-acre site located at over 1200 feet elevation in the foothills of the Blue Mountains. Harvested at yields of 2.2 tons acre, the Syrah was given 53 days on skins and fermented using only native yeasts. The wine spent more than two years in large French puncheons, 25% new. Listed alc is 14.5%. Jeb Dunnuck: Copyrighted material withheld.