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Sunday, January 30, 2022 - Very shirt decant. An excellent Carlisle syrah just entering its second stage of development. Very smooth, fruit drive, some spice but not really classic syrah pepper, more like just a bit in the background. There is breadth and depth to this wine with brooding dark cherry, meatyness and a bit of coffee and chocolate. Someone said leather on CT but I get none of that - no similarity to the smooth saddle leather component of Bordeaux. My guess is that this has another 5 years, maybe a decade, to go. I suspect that it will get a bit better over that time, but maybe it plateaus. Another MRO drinking window bites the dust. He suggested 2013 to 2021. I suggest that it's still on the upswing in 2022. 57% new oak, which I suspect it the contributor to the coffee/chocolate component, but after all these years in bottle, there is no oaky, woody flavor.

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