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Saturday, February 13, 2016 - Point of reference first…the night before, I had dinner with a friend in Spokane and we opened three Cayuse wines…2008 Armada Syrah, 2009 En Chamberlain Syrah, 2010 No Girls Syrah. So my Rocks/Funk palate was properly calibrated…

I tasted this wine after tasting 4 wines from the standard Rasa lineup. It was pulled earlier that morning and placed in a 375ml taster bottle.

Nose: Wet stone/mineral, dark black fruits, touch of the Rocks Funk.

Palate: Umami, smoke, game, very balanced front and mid-palate, low to no hint of heat, Long finish.

General Impression: The nose was entrancing, but my first sip was…was…?? I said to Billo “That is not what I was expecting” which kinda threw him, as I think he thought I meant the wine didn’t meet my expectations, but quite the opposite…having had three Cayuse the night before, I had this expectation of how the wine would be on my palate and this wine just flat out intrigued me! The first descriptor I could throw out was umami…this dense, richness…almost a wine gravy…that coated the palate with this mix of the flavors called out above. Beautiful wine, it just really drew me in intellectually, as I could definitely see the hand of Rasa and the Rocks Terroir, but it just teased me to define it, which I think I grasped about 24 hours later…

2nd Taste at 24 hours: Billo sent me home with the remaining samples, I poured a taste the next day at the 24 hour mark just to see what some air time would do. The nose remained fairly consistent, but the palate grabbed a healthy dose of Blackberries and Tar now. As I finished off a glass, the last 4-5 sips were screaming a Northern Rhone Cornas to me. I loved it.

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