Community Tasting Note

Frank Murray III wrote:

Friday, April 3, 2009 - Showing different than I recall last year. Early impressions? A good amount of pepper on the bouquet, along with some alcohol, or this is what it seems to suggest right now. Some jerky notes, too. Palate? Char, lots of acidity wrapped around some red and black notes but this has some zing. Tight and very angular, pointed at this stage. Will let it sit and retaste more tonight and tomorrow.....setting out overnight, the decant helped this wine unfold. Aromatically, the pepper remains, along with a whiff of vanilla and a sagey/brushy note but the alcohol perception I had is gone. The palate picked up some tar and jerky notes, too--probably two of the main notes I have always liked about Garys' syrah terroir. Join the pepper, tar and jerky together, along with an even mix of red cherry, blueberry and juicy blackberry and you get a real cool complexity. Toast, char and bitter chocolate on the end, with a finishing grip of acidity. Settle this wine in bottle another year to 18 months and I think it will be a total package, with Adam doing a fine job again of interpreting the Garys' fruit.

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