2009 Tensley Syrah Colson Canyon Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (102) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  11/22/2023 - WillRepstad wrote: 83 Points

  I have to admit I was slightly disappointed by this wine. Although Colson Canyon is a warm sight, I would have liked to have seen a great effort to lower the sugar/alcohol in this wine. After 14 years this wine still lacks any balance; it’s overly jammy fruit and almost young port-like on the nose is nausea inducing. I would have preferred this wine closer to 13.5% abv and with more acidity to balance. This was drank after a superb ‘21 domaine vincent paris St. Joseph ‘Les Cotes’ and did not compare well at all. Major headache incoming!
  Overall: 83 (and going down quickly)

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  10/1/2020 - SICILIAN-SOLE Does not like this wine: 82 Points

  Sweet, flabby and hot. No upside.

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  12/25/2019 - Fredbreiden wrote: 70 Points

  Could not drink it. Dumped it down the sink

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  12/22/2019 - eljugo wrote: 79 Points

  Purchased from winery. Second bottle that tastes like grape juice. No structure. Just sweetness and a bit of canned cranberry sauce tartness on the finish. Bleech.

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  9/27/2019 - Magnum PI Does not like this wine: 88 Points

  I opened this first bottle from my case tonight at The Oven. Decanted the wine and did not notice much evolution over the two hours Charlie, Jim Harris, and I drank it. Dark fruit, cassis, sweet, slowly emerging olive, lush, dense, new world style. Alcohol is very present at 15%, and the full body, very extracted style will no doubt appeal to some, just not me. Mid palate isn't terribly interesting, and I thought the finish was nothing out of the ordinary, with some heat. Kind of reminds me of a plump, buxom woman, falling out of her dress, while loudly doing shots of goldschlager at a party. Man I miss college.

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