Community Tasting Note

isaacjamesbaker wrote:

Sunday, February 13, 2011 - i drank this with my girlfriend with spaghetti and meatballs. the wine took the cake. it's brilliant purple out of the glass. the nose was so tight at first, but with mere minutes it started to show it's true force. blackberries, mocha, meat drippings, vanilla cola exude from the nose. over time i picked up more clove and cinnamon. the palate is dense and tannic as hell. the mouthfeel is tremendous. this is no fruit bomb though. it has serious complexity and tremendous weight. there's tons of red licorice, plum skins and some herbs and pepper. i kept getting this black cherry fountain soda note as well. this is new world syrah done, in my opinion, incredibly well . it's clearly an unfiltered wine, because the sediment is insane. it has lots of great secondary characteristics, but it's also got this lush fruit and gushy mouthfeel that is so sonoma. this really needs five years at least, and could easily last longer. incredible wine that i will desperately try to find more of.

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