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Monday, December 11, 2023 - Went to a book signing/tasting tonight at Marine Layer in Healdsburg and had an opportunity to taste the ‘21 Halcon Estate Syrah. I wasn’t planning on opening any of the bottles I purchased any time soon so this was a good opportunity to get some data points on it.
Pours deep dark purple almost black. Nose of violets and roasted meat but little else right now. This is extremely young and it’s a hard body. Blackberry, soy and a touch of black olive wound up in a tight package with lip smacking acidity and some pretty mean tannins. It’s got the stuffing, very Côte-Rôtie in style. This will benefit from some cellaring. In the short term a good 24-48hr decant at minimum.

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