2010 Tensley Syrah Thompson Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  11/22/2023 - alpha_ori Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Doing really well 13 years on. Delicious tertiary flavors. This is California Syrah. Amazing QPR.

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  8/30/2018 - Seafoam Manor wrote: 92 Points

  Pretty classic Tensley; dense, fruit forward and very extracted wine. Even in intense light, this is closer to an opaque black with garnet hues. Bursting with fruit on both the nose and palate. An almost candied blackberry is the dominant note, but you get accompanying blueberry, plum and tart red fruit. This is all complimented with notes of dried meat, smoke, pepper, espresso and a violet presence, that is mostly on the nose, but make no mistake about it, this is fruit forward, new-world, syrah. Nicely integrated tannin, full bodied and surprisingly medium++ to high acidity. The alcohol is very well handled and, while technically on the high side, the '10 is lower by typical Tensley standards. For my palate, Tensly, in general, seems to do better in cooler years. This is a big wine, to the point that it won't be to everyone's taste, but successful within the style. With all the concentration, I think this has several good years left in it, although I don't see it adding many tertiary notes. This drank better at something closer to "cellar temperature" and got a little rough as it heated up.

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  3/4/2018 - VlgJeff wrote: 88 Points

  PnP. May have waited too long to open this wine. Although the nose gave us some red fruits, the palate did not measure up as we found the fruit fading and the acidity becoming prominent. The wine was rather light bodied for a syrah, with a bit of spice, and some (mostly resolved) tannins.
  Based on this, we decided to use this bottle for the sauce on our braised short ribs, and to drink a different bottle when we eat the ribs in a couple of days.

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  11/16/2016 - SICILIAN-SOLE Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Medium bodied, dark berry, cranberry, tangy acidity and a slight touch of funk. Nice wine.

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  2/17/2015 - pmk wrote: 89 Points

  nice ripe fruit, very soft tannins, not very layered or complex. Does not match some of the wonderful Tensley syrah's I am used to drinking

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