2010 Reynvaan Family Vineyards Syrah The Contender In the Rocks

Community Tasting Notes (48) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  12/3/2022 - 3daywinereview.com wrote: 97 Points

  Twin Cities Wine Club Washington State Bordeaux & Syrah Tasting (Edina, MN): Day 1: So the highest rated wine in the tasting via Cellar Tracker and even myself who brought it had it at last place of the tasting. The 2017 Result of a Crush Syrah dominated it. Black olives, spice, floral and stone. Elegant but not concentrated enough.
  Day 3: This is why I do the 3 Day Wine Review and transformation of the year!!! Not showing well at the tasting and took home a glass and didn't drink any day 2 but day 3 holly cow! Black olives, tar, truffles, cigar ash, stone, dark currants, white pepper, complex spices and gravel. Not only is the most amazing 3 day wine change in a long time it might end up being wine of the year. 97 points
  Recommendation: Buy!!! This wine needs some serious more time in the cellar. Day 1 not much going on but day 3 one of the best Syrah experiences to date.

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  7/23/2022 - RJWallis Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Our last bottle from an amazing vintage. Flawless. One hour decant had this raring to go alongside our dessert, a dark triple chocolate financier.

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  7/4/2022 - bhouk wrote:

  Very meaty, some rare and bloody, and some wood smoked; leather, sweat; velvet mouthfeel and an underpinning of cherries, berries and peaches. This is good, really good; my impression is that there is a risk that the delicious balance could tip into something too sweaty for me. Or maybe not. But for current drinking it lights up the board.

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  3/20/2022 - Neecies Likes this wine:

  Mine. Decanted for three hours, served blind. Pretty much all secondary now with raspberry, black pepper and garrique swimming around in the Rocks funk. Texturally, fairly resolved tannins, good acidity--at peak and drinking superbly right now. Greatly to it's credit, it got more Old World than New World votes from a tough crowd and as the 12th wine out in a line-up that veered Old World.

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  12/29/2021 - hiker_guy Likes this wine:

  Nose has that stones funk and some nice fruit. This smells ready to go.
  Palate has mineral, red fruit, pepper spice and it very typical of the stones.
  finishes nice and long. Really a lovely wine with years ahead of it if I had waited.
  Would buy again.

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