14 years young. Plenty of blood and iron and dark fruit. No signs of fading as this got better in the decanter. Got one more and might wait a year or 2
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Agree with Dutradan's review above. This was excellent and got better over the 4 hours of drinking. Two more bottles that will stay cellared for 1-2 more years.
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Gerry does a great job with all his wines. the 05 is just coming into its own, will get better over the next several years. must decant for an hour or more and at this point the wine reveals its character and secrets ever so slowly. 5 hours later i am wishing i had just started drinking this wine as it has evolved and is now a silk tapestry taunting me to understand its true place in the world.. dark fruits on the nose with perfumed aromatics (3% viognier is making a contribution here) the viognier elevates the syrah fruit notes without conflicting, blue berry and violets, some rich grilled fat( not necessarily bacon) and an alcohol presence (15%) that is easy to ignore unless you are trying to focus on it. on the palate it all comes together with an integrated sweet tannin that adds to a nice medium/long finish. I have 2 bottles left a 750 I will try in 2-3 years and a magnum that I will share with special friends if I make it to my 65th B day in 7 years. but only if I can resist the temptation for that long......
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A bit perfumed but this seems to disappear with air, as this wine is better day 2. Also signs of complexity and depth day 2. Could go 1-2 pts higher with cellaring or with a long decant.
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This is new world syrah, heavy with alcohol and fruit, but it is well balanced and fresh and well aged - there is oak, but its well integrated; the nose is good and day 2-3 it is plain great with lots of sweet dark fruit, vanilla, spices, grilled bacon fat, licorice tea, violet pastilles, on the nose and palate. Small producer - seems like a serious vineyard. The price is very right. Serve this with some grilled meat, perhaps slightly chilled.
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Tasted this at the winery alongside the 2006, and both are gorgeous. The 2005 was a little bigger -- as balanced as it is, it has a little more brute force behind it, a little less delicacy than the 2006 (at least as of now). These wines are like your erudite friend who spent 10 years in France -- you don't mistake him for a Frenchman, exactly, but he's got a whole lot more refinement and panache than you'd expect in your garden-variety Yank. Both the 2005 and 2006 were absent of that hard-core earth-and-bacon-fat quality that you find in a real Rotie, but other elements are definitely there (three days later I'm a bit hazy, but I recall having been struck by the presence of raspberries and flowers that was not at all unlike its cousins from Ampuis). This will surely go down as one of my best discoveries of 2011.
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8/14/2019 - wiscgrad wrote: 94 Points
so much for waiting a year. 2nd bottle just as impressive
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3/16/2019 - wiscgrad wrote: 94 Points
14 years young. Plenty of blood and iron and dark fruit. No signs of fading as this got better in the decanter. Got one more and might wait a year or 2
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12/18/2015 - bosoxbw Likes this wine: 92 Points
Consistent with previous note, maybe edging a little towards the end of the window, but probably still another good year left. Really nice wine.
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7/4/2015 - bosoxbw wrote: 93 Points
Agree with Dutradan's review above. This was excellent and got better over the 4 hours of drinking. Two more bottles that will stay cellared for 1-2 more years.
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11/19/2014 - dutradan@msn.com Likes this wine: 93 Points
Gerry does a great job with all his wines. the 05 is just coming into its own, will get better over the next several years. must decant for an hour or more and at this point the wine reveals its character and secrets ever so slowly. 5 hours later i am wishing i had just started drinking this wine as it has evolved and is now a silk tapestry taunting me to understand its true place in the world.. dark fruits on the nose with perfumed aromatics (3% viognier is making a contribution here) the viognier elevates the syrah fruit notes without conflicting, blue berry and violets, some rich grilled fat( not necessarily bacon) and an alcohol presence (15%) that is easy to ignore unless you are trying to focus on it. on the palate it all comes together with an integrated sweet tannin that adds to a nice medium/long finish. I have 2 bottles left a 750 I will try in 2-3 years and a magnum that I will share with special friends if I make it to my 65th B day in 7 years. but only if I can resist the temptation for that long......
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9/13/2014 - Sundbyberg wrote: 91 Points
A bit perfumed but this seems to disappear with air, as this wine is better day 2. Also signs of complexity and depth day 2.
Could go 1-2 pts higher with cellaring or with a long decant.
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5/24/2014 - Omar Khayyam Likes this wine: 92 Points
This is new world syrah, heavy with alcohol and fruit, but it is well balanced and fresh and well aged - there is oak, but its well integrated; the nose is good and day 2-3 it is plain great with lots of sweet dark fruit, vanilla, spices, grilled bacon fat, licorice tea, violet pastilles, on the nose and palate. Small producer - seems like a serious vineyard. The price is very right. Serve this with some grilled meat, perhaps slightly chilled.
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6/16/2011 - SonomaWineHead Likes this wine: 94 Points
this wine just keeps getting better!
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2/25/2011 - wormfarmer wrote: 92 Points
Tasted this at the winery alongside the 2006, and both are gorgeous. The 2005 was a little bigger -- as balanced as it is, it has a little more brute force behind it, a little less delicacy than the 2006 (at least as of now). These wines are like your erudite friend who spent 10 years in France -- you don't mistake him for a Frenchman, exactly, but he's got a whole lot more refinement and panache than you'd expect in your garden-variety Yank. Both the 2005 and 2006 were absent of that hard-core earth-and-bacon-fat quality that you find in a real Rotie, but other elements are definitely there (three days later I'm a bit hazy, but I recall having been struck by the presence of raspberries and flowers that was not at all unlike its cousins from Ampuis). This will surely go down as one of my best discoveries of 2011.
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