Blueberries, blackberries, licorice, and hints of floral in the nose. Concentrated fruit in the flavor with blackberries, black currants, black cherries, plums, and some earthiness. Full bodied wine with a medium to long finish
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Nose was muted but woody, violets, spice, pencil/graphite & cherries. Balance is amazing and still plenty of tannin. This could go a while longer but not sure it will get better. 115 cases of this in 2006 so glad I could participate. Excellent.
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The nose was dark and rich, with jammy black fruits, grilled herbs, violets, sweet spices and hints of animal musk that permeated the senses. It was velvety on the palate with saturating blackberry-cherry, grilled herbs and peppery spices, yet there's a balancing of acidity that makes it all work. The finish was long, saturating and spicy. Yum.
this is a big full concentrated nose of pepper, lavender and spice. this loaded with rich and juciy fruit flavors (Purple) This seem to be just past the peak
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Wow, 7 years since my first and only prior bottle - time really does fly. The months and years have had little effect on this wine's glacial aging curve. Similar to an '06 Cardiac Hill from Carlisle I recently drank, this is still incredibly youthful, richly fruited and fresh. FWIW, I'd peg the Papa's as more exuberant than the Cardiac Hill. On to the note. Big full concentrated nose of black fruit, pepper, lavender and spice. Palate is loaded with rich, juicy, polished black fruit. Big and bold but with a deft balance. Well done.
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This was a full-throtel yet highly enjoyable Syrah from Carlisle. It started with extremely ripe, dark fruit and a slight perception of heat on the nose, but leveled off after an hour in the decanter. What emerged was a dark beast of a wine, showing rich blackberry, Kalamata olive, savory herbs, violet floral tones and crushed stone, yet through all of its intensity there was an unending freshness to the nose. On the palate, it showed weighty, glycerol textures with blackberries, spice, bitter cherries and black licorice, which lingered long into the finish with a hint of plum and blackberry.
Through it all, the most impressive part of the '06 Papa's Block, was its balance from start to finish. This is not for everyone, but would give some of the richer and racier northern Rhones a run for their money.
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A beautiful bottle of syrah and unfortunately my last of these. Delicious with ribeye steaks. Tis wine is in prime time but will certainly hold for more years
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No reason to think 2015 to be an end date for this. Required about two hours of a decant to get to opening, and really showed its best at that point. Still a pretty big boy at this point.
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Note one day after a glass was CV'd out. Plums, meat and bacon on the palate. Lots of black pepper and spice on the palate. Probably at or nearing peak.
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Simply beautiful, this is everything you look for in a California Syrah, harmony in all the elements, luscious fruit, nice plush weight, smooth finish, enough accolades you should try it.
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Mmm. Delicious with NY strip steaks on the grill. Blueberry, and dark fruits, lots of olive, black pepper, spices. The tannins are well integrated and soft. Good acidity. Some tar. Very impressive.
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I've held my 2 bottles since release but decided to open one last night. I appreciated less throttle in the wine, less opulence and yet a good range of flavor. Some tar, dark fruit and as one taster in CT mentioned, there is a graham cracker aromatic. There is also acid and what seemed like a hint of whole cluster. We finished the bottle, so no chance to retaste. My drink window would be now through 2015, as the wine is in real nice shape.
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An opulent pleasure-bomb. Plenty of stuffing to cruise along in the cellar. Blackberry, gingerbread and graphite, joined by subtle bacon. Quite viscous, and nearly over the top.
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Note after 3 hours in decanter. Inky in color. Nose of bacon fat and black and blue fruits. A bit dark and brooding. Almost a bit of a metallic finish, but in a very enjoyable way. Very good wine.
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Bold, flush, full on blueberry, compact, fruit forward and thick. Decanted for about 1hr, minerality started to peek through towards the end of the evening. A good wine, balanced, not a great wine given I found its dimentions a bit limited...though tasty!
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might be my favorite Carlisle syrah to date. It had such a wonderful nose of dark fruit. graphite and a Northern Rhone gaminess that pick up a little white pepper after being open a bit. Perfectly balanced with a long smooth finish. Sorry it was my last one. Probably could go another 3-5 years easily but those fortunate enough to have a couple of bottles, pop one open: you won't be disappointed:)
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I've not had this wine before but I'm pretty sure this saw some heat at some point in its life. I've enjoyed quite a bit of Carlisle and this one just seemed off. It had a taste which I can only describe as salty upon opening. This dissipated with time, but I got some metallic "interference" along with the textbook Carlisle dark fruits and smooth chocolate flavors so common in these wines. The fruit was definitely there if you searched for it but it was struggling. Thankfully I have another bottle!
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San Antonio Wine Geeks - The Great Lamb Feast (with syrah) (Home of John Webber): Great peppery nose with lots of toasty mocha and spicy oak notes underneath blackberries and wild berry scents. Great concentrated dark berry palate, with big coarse tannins and strong mocha tar element on a lengthy finish. Dark and brooding masculine wine, that hasn’t quite integrated its oak but is delicious anyway. Needs time.
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Went to an out of town wedding (Whittier, Alaska which is way out of town) and suffered through bar stock wine and cheap champagne. Just returned home and am finishing off a bottle of '06 Carlisle Papa Block Syrah that was actually opened New Years Eve. This wine is frigging delicious after sitting opened on the counter for almost two days. 96 points for this inky black beast. Aromas and flavors of dark fruit, spice, earth, iron, leather and blood. The wine is perfectly balance with the flavors deliciously integrated. The finish is long with just a little heat but not q distraction. Absolutely otherworldly Syrah and to my chagrin, my last bottle of this beauty.
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14.8% ABV. Decanted for about 45 minutes. A bit inky in the glass with a magenta rim. Graham Cracker nose with sweet black fruit. Lush, rich attack of sweet raspberry/boysenberry. Full bodied. Lush and open knit. This is delicious and open for business.
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Dark, almost opaque ruby red. Expressive red and black fruit, meat, pepper aromas. On the palate we have blackberries, spice, a little pepper, some smoke and some dark chocolate. Well balanced. No apparent alcohol. An aftertaste that goes on and on. This was great. What did you expect? Mike releases next week. Bring it on Mr. Officer!
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Opaque in color with a beautifully complex and floral nose. The palate was full and the fruit quite ripe. There was a nice mineral undertone, but the wine seemed a bit too sweet and clunky to merit a higher score on this day. Very good wine, very good clean fruit that didn't appear to be overly manipulated.
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Great American Syrah Shootout II (Chicago, IL): Black as night in color. Packed nose is full and explosive, but lacks real delineation at this point. Palate is loaded and decadent. Tooth-staining, rich black fruit on the palate with herbs, olive and spice. Peppery finish. Excellent - but so young and monolithic today. Can't wait to see it unfold. My #4, Group #9
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Wineflock - Best of American Syrah (Home): Group #9, My #8 - Full opaque deep purple color. Wow, lovely floral violet black cassis nose. Nice big bold black fruit with a lon gcoffee asphalt finish - puckering. Young.
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Saxum/Rhone Ranger dinner with Justin Smith (New York): Very dark - almost opaque purple-black. Intoxicating nose with tons of dark fruits, pepper, leather, violets and dark chocolate flavours. Full bodied on the palate with lots of plums and blackberries over graphite, tar and earth - this is a big wine but well balanced with good acidity and chewy tannins underneath. Finishes with great length.
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BYO Californian (Le Sommelier): Tight black color with a thin purple rim. Aromas of nail polish remover, blackberry, ripe black cherries, some green leafs and funk. Intense black berries on the palate, becoming more juicy and splashed on the finish, like ripe black plums. The alcohol warms on the midpalate and finish. This wine needs cellaring, and it barely managed to show it's true face now, but at the end it started to show a bit of spice and similar nuances on the midpalate.
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Precocious wine. Splash decacnted and first whiff I got a wonderful floral component, with blackberries and smoke. A bright streak of acidity and huge wall of tannin noticeable in the backround. This is a huge syrah and it needs more time to rest in the bottle or minimum 5 hours in the decanter. Very promising for the future.
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This was opaque and purple in color. The nose was very rich of dark berries and alcohol. On the palate it too was rich with some pepperiness added to the ripe fruit. It was good, but focused. This is kinda like thick syrupy grape juice with booze!
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Great fruit, black berry and black raspberry. Cocoa, bitter chocolate, burnt fruit and tar on the finish. Very good with decent balance, seems like some aggressive barrels were used to give more structure on the back end. I still haven't had a Carlisle that I'm disappointed with!
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A bit tight but not impenetrable. Splash decanted at 4:30PM and drank at 7:00PM. Dense blackberry, with a bit of oak creaminess but not distracting. Touches of herb and carries it's 14.8% pretty well. Like it.
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Unrated, as related to the big mistake that it was to open this wine at this point. Almost impenitrable blackberry liqueur, blueberry, espresso, leather, graphite, and resinous unintegrated oak. Dense, powerful, tough tannins, somewhat drying on the finish. Very high potential, but won't open the other bottle for several years.
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2/9/2020 - jonboy74 wrote: flawed
Seepage, didnt recover with any decanting. Pity.
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11/10/2017 - buckeye76 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Blueberries, blackberries, licorice, and hints of floral in the nose. Concentrated fruit in the flavor with blackberries, black currants, black cherries, plums, and some earthiness. Full bodied wine with a medium to long finish
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9/9/2017 - WineGuyDelMar Likes this wine: 93 Points
Nose was muted but woody, violets, spice, pencil/graphite & cherries. Balance is amazing and still plenty of tannin. This could go a while longer but not sure it will get better. 115 cases of this in 2006 so glad I could participate. Excellent.
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9/3/2017 - Eric Guido Likes this wine: 93 Points
The nose was dark and rich, with jammy black fruits, grilled herbs, violets, sweet spices and hints of animal musk that permeated the senses. It was velvety on the palate with saturating blackberry-cherry, grilled herbs and peppery spices, yet there's a balancing of acidity that makes it all work. The finish was long, saturating and spicy. Yum.
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9/2/2017 - Mlermontov wrote: 93 Points
Plum ...ripe black fruit, coffee, powerful mid with a looong tart and juicy red berry finish. Really excellent !!
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11/19/2016 - mdahar wrote: 92 Points
this is a big full concentrated nose of pepper, lavender and spice. this loaded with rich and juciy fruit flavors (Purple) This seem to be just past the peak
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6/17/2015 - Nanda Likes this wine: 93 Points
Wow, 7 years since my first and only prior bottle - time really does fly. The months and years have had little effect on this wine's glacial aging curve. Similar to an '06 Cardiac Hill from Carlisle I recently drank, this is still incredibly youthful, richly fruited and fresh. FWIW, I'd peg the Papa's as more exuberant than the Cardiac Hill. On to the note. Big full concentrated nose of black fruit, pepper, lavender and spice. Palate is loaded with rich, juicy, polished black fruit. Big and bold but with a deft balance. Well done.
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3/15/2015 - Eric Guido Likes this wine: 93 Points
This was a full-throtel yet highly enjoyable Syrah from Carlisle. It started with extremely ripe, dark fruit and a slight perception of heat on the nose, but leveled off after an hour in the decanter. What emerged was a dark beast of a wine, showing rich blackberry, Kalamata olive, savory herbs, violet floral tones and crushed stone, yet through all of its intensity there was an unending freshness to the nose. On the palate, it showed weighty, glycerol textures with blackberries, spice, bitter cherries and black licorice, which lingered long into the finish with a hint of plum and blackberry.
Through it all, the most impressive part of the '06 Papa's Block, was its balance from start to finish. This is not for everyone, but would give some of the richer and racier northern Rhones a run for their money.
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10/28/2014 - dsimmons Likes this wine: 95 Points
A beautiful bottle of syrah and unfortunately my last of these. Delicious with ribeye steaks. Tis wine is in prime time but will certainly hold for more years
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10/26/2014 - budman Likes this wine: 93 Points
Amazingly good.
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6/28/2014 - MOCGator wrote: 94 Points
Stellar Syrah. Plenty of life left
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3/27/2014 - mrmedoes Likes this wine: 92 Points
No reason to think 2015 to be an end date for this. Required about two hours of a decant to get to opening, and really showed its best at that point. Still a pretty big boy at this point.
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2/6/2014 - cookie7 wrote: 91 Points
Note one day after a glass was CV'd out. Plums, meat and bacon on the palate. Lots of black pepper and spice on the palate. Probably at or nearing peak.
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1/25/2014 - BrianMc wrote: 93 Points
Simply beautiful, this is everything you look for in a California Syrah, harmony in all the elements, luscious fruit, nice plush weight, smooth finish, enough accolades you should try it.
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3/7/2013 - snordhoff wrote:
Drinking beautifully, blackberry with a gamey component. Great acid, should age well.
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11/11/2012 - Outplaying wrote:
Mmm. Delicious with NY strip steaks on the grill. Blueberry, and dark fruits, lots of olive, black pepper, spices. The tannins are well integrated and soft. Good acidity. Some tar. Very impressive.
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6/25/2012 - Frank Murray III wrote:
I've held my 2 bottles since release but decided to open one last night. I appreciated less throttle in the wine, less opulence and yet a good range of flavor. Some tar, dark fruit and as one taster in CT mentioned, there is a graham cracker aromatic. There is also acid and what seemed like a hint of whole cluster. We finished the bottle, so no chance to retaste. My drink window would be now through 2015, as the wine is in real nice shape.
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4/17/2012 - dougsmith wrote: 92 Points
Black with deep ruby rim. Loads of dark berries and some background licorice. Full bodied with density, presence and power.
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2/11/2012 - AdamWallstein wrote: 93 Points
An opulent pleasure-bomb. Plenty of stuffing to cruise along in the cellar. Blackberry, gingerbread and graphite, joined by subtle bacon.
Quite viscous, and nearly over the top.
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1/23/2012 - cookie7 wrote: 91 Points
Note after 3 hours in decanter. Inky in color. Nose of bacon fat and black and blue fruits. A bit dark and brooding. Almost a bit of a metallic finish, but in a very enjoyable way. Very good wine.
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1/22/2012 - btock wrote: 93 Points
Bold, flush, full on blueberry, compact, fruit forward and thick. Decanted for about 1hr, minerality started to peek through towards the end of the evening. A good wine, balanced, not a great wine given I found its dimentions a bit limited...though tasty!
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12/23/2011 - LikeABC wrote: 95 Points
might be my favorite Carlisle syrah to date. It had such a wonderful nose of dark fruit. graphite and a Northern Rhone gaminess that pick up a little white pepper after being open a bit. Perfectly balanced with a long smooth finish. Sorry it was my last one. Probably could go another 3-5 years easily but those fortunate enough to have a couple of bottles, pop one open: you won't be disappointed:)
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9/29/2011 - ggolec wrote: flawed
I've not had this wine before but I'm pretty sure this saw some heat at some point in its life. I've enjoyed quite a bit of Carlisle and this one just seemed off. It had a taste which I can only describe as salty upon opening. This dissipated with time, but I got some metallic "interference" along with the textbook Carlisle dark fruits and smooth chocolate flavors so common in these wines. The fruit was definitely there if you searched for it but it was struggling. Thankfully I have another bottle!
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2/6/2011 - Nutty08 wrote: 92 Points
San Antonio Wine Geeks - The Great Lamb Feast (with syrah) (Home of John Webber): Great peppery nose with lots of toasty mocha and spicy oak notes underneath blackberries and wild berry scents. Great concentrated dark berry palate, with big coarse tannins and strong mocha tar element on a lengthy finish. Dark and brooding masculine wine, that hasn’t quite integrated its oak but is delicious anyway. Needs time.
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1/29/2011 - gdbarton1@gmail.com wrote: 92 Points
Very dark purple, opaque. Black fruit, syrah licorice nose. Full bodied, dense black fruit, balanced not too ripe, licorice, semi sweet rich finish.
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1/2/2011 - dsimmons wrote: 96 Points
Went to an out of town wedding (Whittier, Alaska which is way out of town) and suffered through bar stock wine and cheap champagne. Just returned home and am finishing off a bottle of '06 Carlisle Papa Block Syrah that was actually opened New Years Eve. This wine is frigging delicious after sitting opened on the counter for almost two days. 96 points for this inky black beast. Aromas and flavors of dark fruit, spice, earth, iron, leather and blood. The wine is perfectly balance with the flavors deliciously integrated. The finish is long with just a little heat but not q distraction. Absolutely otherworldly Syrah and to my chagrin, my last bottle of this beauty.
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10/16/2010 - mebydef wrote: 94 Points
Lovely wine with very nice aromatics and textural presence. Excellent length.
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9/2/2010 - dsimmons Likes this wine: 92 Points
Very Good and excellent on the second day
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3/15/2010 - OneLastSyrah Likes this wine: 93 Points
14.8% ABV. Decanted for about 45 minutes. A bit inky in the glass with a magenta rim. Graham Cracker nose with sweet black fruit. Lush, rich attack of sweet raspberry/boysenberry. Full bodied. Lush and open knit. This is delicious and open for business.
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1/6/2010 - Mike Dildine wrote: 93 Points
Dark, almost opaque ruby red. Expressive red and black fruit, meat, pepper aromas. On the palate we have blackberries, spice, a little pepper, some smoke and some dark chocolate. Well balanced. No apparent alcohol. An aftertaste that goes on and on. This was great. What did you expect? Mike releases next week. Bring it on Mr. Officer!
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6/30/2009 - madeiradog wrote: 90 Points
Delicious, almost chunky, syrah with good, but heavy structure. Dark fruits with pepper notes and some slight heat on the finish.
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3/7/2009 - mebydef wrote: 92 Points
Opaque in color with a beautifully complex and floral nose. The palate was full and the fruit quite ripe. There was a nice mineral undertone, but the wine seemed a bit too sweet and clunky to merit a higher score on this day. Very good wine, very good clean fruit that didn't appear to be overly manipulated.
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2/2/2009 - jmd60611 wrote: 94 Points
Really purple, really young but thick viscous and dry...This was great with really drying tannins, but just frickin big and layered and juicy ripe
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10/25/2008 - fisk15 wrote: 93 Points
Meaty, peppery awseome wine that still has tannin so hold or enjoy now w/ a bit of a decant.
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10/24/2008 - Burgundy Al wrote: 89 Points
Best of American Syrah Blind Tasting (Hughes House - Chicago IL): Tasted blind. As dark as wine can be. Dense black fruit on nose. Same fruit on palate, close to approaching a jammy character. Modest spice at best. Alcohol protrudes quite a bit on finish.
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10/24/2008 - Nanda wrote: 96 Points
Great American Syrah Shootout II (Chicago, IL): Black as night in color. Packed nose is full and explosive, but lacks real delineation at this point. Palate is loaded and decadent. Tooth-staining, rich black fruit on the palate with herbs, olive and spice. Peppery finish. Excellent - but so young and monolithic today. Can't wait to see it unfold. My #4, Group #9
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10/24/2008 - winefool wrote: 94 Points
Wineflock - Best of American Syrah (Home): Group #9, My #8 - Full opaque deep purple color. Wow, lovely floral violet black cassis nose. Nice big bold black fruit with a lon gcoffee asphalt finish - puckering. Young.
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10/17/2008 - salil wrote: 94 Points
Saxum/Rhone Ranger dinner with Justin Smith (New York): Very dark - almost opaque purple-black. Intoxicating nose with tons of dark fruits, pepper, leather, violets and dark chocolate flavours. Full bodied on the palate with lots of plums and blackberries over graphite, tar and earth - this is a big wine but well balanced with good acidity and chewy tannins underneath. Finishes with great length.
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10/6/2008 - Terkel wrote: 91 Points
BYO Californian (Le Sommelier): Tight black color with a thin purple rim. Aromas of nail polish remover, blackberry, ripe black cherries, some green leafs and funk. Intense black berries on the palate, becoming more juicy and splashed on the finish, like ripe black plums. The alcohol warms on the midpalate and finish. This wine needs cellaring, and it barely managed to show it's true face now, but at the end it started to show a bit of spice and similar nuances on the midpalate.
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9/28/2008 - bubbachumps wrote: 94 Points
Precocious wine. Splash decacnted and first whiff I got a wonderful floral component, with blackberries and smoke. A bright streak of acidity and huge wall of tannin noticeable in the backround. This is a huge syrah and it needs more time to rest in the bottle or minimum 5 hours in the decanter. Very promising for the future.
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7/30/2008 - mebydef wrote: 93 Points
This was opaque and purple in color. The nose was very rich of dark berries and alcohol. On the palate it too was rich with some pepperiness added to the ripe fruit. It was good, but focused. This is kinda like thick syrupy grape juice with booze!
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7/17/2008 - pakabear wrote: 93 Points
Great fruit, black berry and black raspberry. Cocoa, bitter chocolate, burnt fruit and tar on the finish. Very good with decent balance, seems like some aggressive barrels were used to give more structure on the back end. I still haven't had a Carlisle that I'm disappointed with!
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6/1/2008 - fisk15 wrote: 92 Points
A bit tight but not impenetrable. Splash decanted at 4:30PM and drank at 7:00PM. Dense blackberry, with a bit of oak creaminess but not distracting. Touches of herb and carries it's 14.8% pretty well. Like it.
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4/14/2008 - Haltermr wrote:
Unrated, as related to the big mistake that it was to open this wine at this point. Almost impenitrable blackberry liqueur, blueberry, espresso, leather, graphite, and resinous unintegrated oak. Dense, powerful, tough tannins, somewhat drying on the finish. Very high potential, but won't open the other bottle for several years.
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