From magnum, popped and slow-oxed a few hours before serving. Not quite on the level of the last one I opened (admittedly an incredibly high bar to set), but still fantastic. A core of fresh red berried fruit and black olive flavours framed by savoury leathery, earthy, and briny/saline and faintly meaty elements all conveyed on a medium weight frame that's very elegant and polished. The tannins feel mostly resolved, and there's bright acidity giving it plenty of lift. Perhaps it's a touch thin on the back end (compared to my last bottle), but it's still a phenomenal wine. I'll take this any day over any of the IPOB/"New California" Syrahs being made these days.
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Leo's Blind Tasting Group - June '14 edition (Riverpark, NYC): From magnum, decanted a couple of hours before serving. This is just mindblowingly great syrah, so complex, graceful, and polished with layers of red fruits, olives, earth, spice, and more savoury meaty and leathery notes coming together into a seamless whole. It's at a stage where the fruit's still quite fresh and intense, but there's also a lot of flavour and textural development apparent, and it's an absolutely thrilling wine to sit down with and drink. Stunning.
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1/23/2018 - lolo66 wrote:
Great bottle in good condition showing smoky meat and deep dark spiced fruit with a lot of earthy elements. Fantastic.
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2/27/2016 - salil wrote: 92 Points
From magnum, popped and slow-oxed a few hours before serving. Not quite on the level of the last one I opened (admittedly an incredibly high bar to set), but still fantastic. A core of fresh red berried fruit and black olive flavours framed by savoury leathery, earthy, and briny/saline and faintly meaty elements all conveyed on a medium weight frame that's very elegant and polished. The tannins feel mostly resolved, and there's bright acidity giving it plenty of lift. Perhaps it's a touch thin on the back end (compared to my last bottle), but it's still a phenomenal wine. I'll take this any day over any of the IPOB/"New California" Syrahs being made these days.
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6/16/2014 - salil wrote: 96 Points
Leo's Blind Tasting Group - June '14 edition (Riverpark, NYC): From magnum, decanted a couple of hours before serving. This is just mindblowingly great syrah, so complex, graceful, and polished with layers of red fruits, olives, earth, spice, and more savoury meaty and leathery notes coming together into a seamless whole. It's at a stage where the fruit's still quite fresh and intense, but there's also a lot of flavour and textural development apparent, and it's an absolutely thrilling wine to sit down with and drink. Stunning.
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1/22/2009 - rjonwine@gmail.com wrote: flawed
Syrah Tasting Dinner with Shane Syrahs and others (Lavanda Restaurant, Palo Alto, California): Badly corked -- this one was painful to smell just putting one's nose above the bottle it was so badly corked
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