2007 Arnot-Roberts Syrah Alder Springs Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  10/22/2021 - Magnum PI Likes this wine: 93 Points

  We opened this bottle with our friend, Wade, at The Oven - Haymarket, and decanted for about an hour. Enjoyed this bottle over the following hour with a couple of appetizers, soup, and various entrees. As mentioned in a previous review, this wine is a bit polarizing. I liked it a bunch, Wade was on the fence I think, and Brookie did not care for it all that much.
  
  This is leaning towards New World style, but I sensed a hint of Cote Rotie. The nose is inviting, the mid-palate delivers, and the finish is good but not great. Dark fruit, mulberry, licorice, probably other stuff. Brooke thought the alcohol was noticeable, I did not. In it's drinking window now, but a decant helps. Napa drinkers will love this, Rhone purists may not.

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  2/9/2017 - 560 B&W Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Very nice but doesn't sing for me like the 2010. 13.7%

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  11/28/2016 - D3S Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Took 40 minutes to open. Nice nose with smoke and meat, dark fruit on palate with medium finish.

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  9/6/2015 - marshalc wrote: flawed

  Stained label, from restaurant.

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  9/20/2014 - Sennma wrote: 84 Points

  A bit hot on the nose and palate...surprisingly so given its listed at 13.7%. This bottle didn't really have much to say and not very exciting.

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