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Monday, May 18, 2015 - Decanted for 2-3 hours and served fairly chilled. World class syrah here not much below the likes of SQN and the other big hitters. It does what California does best IMHO, which is to combine the unctuous texture, mouthfeel, body and 'surplus' of the New World with flavours I mostly associate with Côte-Rôtie, which is ripe, black cherries, blackberries, cracked black and white peppercorns, baconfat, cloves-spice, charred pine needles (think of making a campfire and throwing in sticks of pine wood) and in this case added complexity from woodsmoke, espresso-roast, chocolate and some malo-yoghurt/creaminess. It will certainly develop for at least a decade, but with this showing; Why wait?

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