2008 Alban Vineyards Syrah Reva Alban Estate Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (144) Avg Score: 94.5 points

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  2/24/2024 - Deryl Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Luscious. Ready now for sure. Paired beautifully with cote du boeuf.

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  6/8/2023 - Cailles wrote: 94 Points

  Tasted double blind. Easily identifiable as Central Cali Syrah. A very seductive, sexy wine with beautiful olive notes. For a higher rating it would have needed a touch higher complexity and precision but this was lots of fun to drink and easily on a 93/94pts level.
  
  TN: At first a bit muted on the nose, then more and more dark fresh black fruit and loads of olives. On the palate expressive from the get-go. Lots of dark fruit, not too ripe, spices, some herbs and again loads of olives. Medium precision. Ultra-velvety structure and feel with good freshness. Well balanced.
  
  Decanting: 1-2 hours should do the job.

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  6/2/2023 - sirpat00 wrote: 93 Points

  Tasted blind. 1h decanted. Black berry, black olives, ripe and dark berry fruit of plum and fig, but leaning a bit into cooked territory with increasing temperature in the glass. Adding overlays of Asian five spice and rose water. Structural tannin, harmonious palate. Limited experience with Reva so far, but while this is good, the fruit was again rather on the extracted side, as was the 2014. Not ideal.

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  4/14/2023 - pmarlo wrote: 94 Points

  Opened on Easter, six days ago. Cork had good pull but felt pliant. Bouquet leapt from bottle like race horses from the starting gate, very aromatic. That doesn't happen a lot in my experience. Deep purple, thick and slow legs. I could tell that there was considerable alcohol but no one does high alcohol wines better than Reva. Full bodied wine. Fruit was great and stood up admirably to alcohol. Was at its best on day six, where the alcohol really receded, leaving a medium bodied fruit. I don't know how that is possible, as alcohol is alcohol, and cant see it leaving wine through evaporation. But it felt like it had or at least changed so it appeared to decrease. Was a great wine but can see where others don't like this style. Well made wine and was ready. Fruit didn't fade at all.

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  4/9/2023 - Matt T wrote: 95 Points

  Stored since release. Perfect cork. Middle aged with few signs of oxidation. Dark purple, holds the alcohol well. Dense with notes of raspberry liqueur, blueberry, and vanilla. Medium to long finish. Great example of this high octane style of Syrah.

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