2009 Arnot-Roberts Syrah North Coast

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  4/15/2021 - wicozani Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Natural cork under wax enclosure removed in one piece. Decanted for 5 hours before pairing with spicy St. Louis-style pork spareribs; a bit of sediment. Ruby in the glass, extending out to thinning edges. Cherry and baking spices on the nose, the palate features slightly sweet cherry, red alpine currant, slate, cinnamon, citrus, and graphite. Quite lean overall, in keeping with Arnot Roberts' style, but nicely aromatic, good acidity, and an excellent pairing for the spicy spareribs.

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  11/26/2018 - bqvino Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Tight and focused at the start, chewier and sweeter as it opened up. Red currant, blackberry jam, leathery notes, nice tannins to finish off. Partial to Sonoma Coast and Arnot wines admittedly but spicy, peppery balance to the juicy red fruits make it a perfect Fall Syrah for a cool night.

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  10/30/2018 - Cote d'Or wrote:

  PopnPour, tasted over 1.5 hrs
  -med dark red faint violet
  -aromatic cured meat olive juice berry
  -med acidity, med weight rather full mid-palate with some berry cured meat faint mature elements and prominent earthiness that extends into med tannic finish
  -similar to prior bottle with great aromatics and drinking well though probably no upside development at this point

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  9/17/2017 - Cote d'Or wrote:

  PopnPour, tasted over 3 hrs
  -opaque red-purple stains the glass no bricking
  -perfumed expressive ripe dark berry smoked meat
  -med/med- acidity, med weight slightly sour faded dark berry earth, med/med- tannins
  -gorgeous aromatics, probably won't improve much from here but no hurry

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  1/19/2016 - retired_and_roving wrote:

  PnP over 2 nights - no improvement or change on 2nd night. When I had this wine a few years ago, I remember enjoying it much more. I found this to be somewhat strange and single noted. Still has a backbone of acid but not a lot of tannins. Felt a bit flat in the mouth and had no back palate action at all. Did not really enjoy at all which is surprising because I usually love their wines.

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