Community Tasting Notes 14

• SMHalps Likes this wine: 92 points

  February 26, 2020 - Steak and Syrah Night (Tuscany Steakhouse): My final bottle of this vintage. Opened, but not decanted, for about 30 minutes before pouring. Time has been kind to this bottle. I have generally been disappointed in Martinelli's Syrahs. But this was very tasty. Complex, medium bodied, with a medium length finish. I had a second glass near the end of the night and had improved a bit over two hours.

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• SMHalps Likes this wine: 90 points

  March 30, 2018 - Opened at a friend's home for dinner, we drank this slowly, so we were able to see it evolve through the night. Nice wine, medium length finish, dark color, and a LOT of sediment. The fruit is dying out, still a decent amount of acidity. Near the end of its life.

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• Rezy13 Likes this wine:

  June 16, 2016 - Initially great black pepper and violets character that is unmistakably Syrah, with more air this seemed to tone down and the chocolate driven oak came to dominate the nose a bit with chat and luxurious white chocolate notes, dense fresh purple fruit, some blue, meatier, slight green note, ripe and big especially drinking alongside the softer Crozes; the palate continues with lots of ripeness, grainy slightly green tannins tell me there is a lot of stem inclusion imparting considerably firm structure, ripe almost jammy fruit, and some heat from the 15.2% ABV; a nice wine but I prefer the 2006 to this, it took several hours in the decanter for this to develop some cohesion and balance; drink or hold.

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• Bachus Maling wrote: 93 points

  April 24, 2016 - Last bottle. Popped and poured. Great smooth Syrah that is in the company of DuMol. I wish I had more.

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• CaliforniaCanuck Likes this wine: 90 points

  November 2, 2014 - Dense, dark plum colour. Nose of flint, black pepper, and blackberry. Full-bodied, moderate to high tannins, 15.2% alc. Tastes of espresso, cocoa, and black currant.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2007
• Type Red
• Producer Martinelli
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation Gravel Lens
• Vineyard Hop Camp Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Russian River Valley

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• In Cellars 104 (37%)
• Consumed 180 (63%)

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